I have made a first application bundle just for testing. You can
download it here:
http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacs.dmg.zip
The Xcode project files for the starter can be obtained here (for
XCode 2.2):
http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacsstarter-src.zip
You can install it by copying TeXmacsStarter.app anywhere you like.
If you put it into the Applications folder, you should see, that all
.tm files have icons now. Double-clicking a .tm file should launch
X11.app and TeXmacs. The bundle itself contains a starter and binary
versions of readline, guile and TeXmacs. A log file is written to
~/TeXmacs/run.log, which contains to output of TeXmacs.
At the momentary state, there are some drawbacks:
- Due to laziness this version is for Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger only.
This can and should be fixed.
- Although the starter itself is a universal binary, I did not manage
to make one out of all the applications. Namely guile resists. The
good news is, that cross compiling TeXmacs is no problem :-)
- Launching the starter only without dropping some file, will not
open TeXmacs. This will change, but for the moment I am happy with it.
- I have not applied the patches of fink for TeXmacs.
- TeXmacsStarter.app does not look for ghostscript. I am not sure, if
we should include ghostscript or set some PATH variable.
First, I would like to have a spotlight plugin, to get metadata out
of .tm files, for optimized searching. If I find time enough over the
holidays, I will do this myself.
Sure, that would be nice. More generally, I am searching for someone
who would like to work on some kind of searchable "TeXmacs file system"
(independently from Mac users). But this is of course a much larger
project,
with one nice feature that it can be developed in a quite
independent way
from TeXmacs (and might be useful to other projects).
I am sorry, but I do not understand, what a searchable "TeXmacs file
system" should be.
Second, the place of the user files in ~/.TeXmacs is rather
"unmacish". I would prefer that they are by default in ~/Library/
TeXmacs, because this is the standard location or user files and
moreover you can view this folder directly in the Finder.app.
One might add some #ifdef's to the source code to change the default
path for TEXMACS_HOME_PATH.
I could do this, but I just wanted to know if this is acceptable.
Yours,
Ingolf
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