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-*- Org -*-
Copyright 2007, 2008 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
This is a fairly long list of to-do items for Skribilo, hopefully not
too outdated, but probably somewhat ambitious, as suggested by the
headings below.
XXX: Check items in `[[file:src/guile/README::Skribilo%20Outline][src/guile/README]]'.
* Important Items (Release Blockers)
** Update the documentation, remove Skribe legacy stuff
** Have a PS/PDF version of the documentation (preferably using Lout)
** Remove calls to `skribe-error', use SRFI-35 exceptions
** Add a reference to http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/publi/jfp05/article.html
* Small Items, Known Bugs
** Fix the HTML engine for `html-left-margin'
Left margin doesn't display well when CSS is being used.
** `eq' package: Handle `:number' in the HTML back-end
* Longer-Term Items
** Add a `if-engine' markup to avoid hacks with `engine-format?'
Expressions like `(if (engine-format? "lout") xxx yyy)' are wrong,
because they look at the value of `*current-engine*' rather than the
engine actually used during resolution and output.
** Find a clean way to have packages customize engines
Currently, most packages have side-effects at `use-modules'-time, e.g.,
they `engine-custom-set!' the current engine, which kinda sucks (see,
e.g., `(skribilo package slide)').
Likewise, there's no replacement for the `*load-options*' mechanism
implemented by `skribe-load' (see, e.g., `web-article').
** Add new engines
*** Write an Info engine based on Scribe's one
*** Write an XHTML engine
*** Render equations using MathML when rendering to HTML
*** Write a [[GUI]]
** Add new readers
*** Add an Org-Mode reader
Could be based on [[http://wingolog.org/software/guile-present/][Andy's parser in Guile-Present]].
*** Add a Texinfo reader
Could be based on the one in [[http://home.gna.org/guile-lib/][Guile-Lib]].
** Write a nice GUI based on Andy's STexi browser
** Add a BibTeX parser
** Add stand-alone tools
Such as `skribilo-to-bibtex', `bibtex-to-skribilo', etc.
** Provide better internationalization
*** Add a `:language' keyword to `document'
** Provide a `skribilo-safe' module name space
In `[[file:src/guile/skribilo/module.scm][(skribilo module)]]', the default user-module should not contain any
filesystem-related primitives, nor any standard module allowing such
operations (e.g., `(ice-9 popen)').
* Much Longer Term Items
** Move to a purely functional style
The goal would be to benefit from referential transparency several
levels, thereby clarifying the code and allowing for a wide range of
improvements (e.g., reusing ASTs or engines in different contexts).
*** Implement a purely functional `resolve'
We'd need to first iterate over the AST:
1. to create a dictionary of nodes (keyed by node `:ident');
2. to create a parent-lookup dictionary, so that things like
`ast-parent' can be implemented.
To that end, VList-based hash lists could come into play. Andy Wingo's
[[http://wingolog.org/pub/fold-and-xml-transformation.pdf][work on `fold-layout']] would certainly be a good source of inspiration.
*** Avoid side effects on engines
**** Customs could be passed at engine instantiation time
**** Main problem is `markup-writer'
*** Find a purely functional representation of ASTs
[[http://pobox.com/~oleg/ftp/Scheme/parent-pointers.txt][Oleg's work on SXML parent pointers]] is probably a good source of
inspiration, especially the "parent pointers as thunks" approach: it's
simple and Just Works!
In addition, we could have the resolution function add a VList "hash
list" (read: functional hash table) to the `document' node so that we
can do `document-lookup-node'.
** Don't name markups using symbols
Markups should be named using unforgeable objects, rather than symbols.
This would be a step in the direction of "capability-object semantics".
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