[ooo-build] Equation editor improvements for GSoC

Cédric Bosdonnat cbosdonnat at novell.com
Fri Apr 2 06:47:45 PDT 2010


Hi Jonas,

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 13:59 +0200, Jonas Finnemann Jensen wrote:
> Yo! Hackers of ooo-build!
>  - That's how your application template says this mail should start :)

Ok it's fine, at least there is one student who read it :) Many thanks
for being interested in Go OpenOffice GSoc 2010!

> I'd like to improve StarMath as a GSoC project. Having been annoyed
> with the equation editing interface for years, I figured I'd draft
> proposal for a WYSIWYG interface like MathType, LyX, kformula and
> similar equation editors...
> If people have emotional attachments to the old text interface, I see
> no problem having it available too... :)
> 
> Anyway, I would like to hear what you think of the proposal and if
> anybody would mentor it... Note, this is just draft, I'll post the
> finished proposal on socghop.appspot.com
> 
> [...]

Your application looks good to me. Maybe Eric could comment on it as he
knows more on StarMath.

Thanks for your nice proposal.

> Ps. I have completed the exercise... My solution is a really ugly
> hack... As a prober solution would be an simple XML change... Anyway
> the nasty hack is here:
> http://jopsen.dk/downloads/go-oo_exercise.diff

Yeah, it's fine to know that you have the answer... but it would have
been wiser not to post it publicly to avoid others to copy it. Note to
the other students: we'll now be checking for duplicate solutions to
avoid cheating!

> Have also figured out how to build and debug, though I have to admit
> that I used a graphical debugger (beaverdbg)...
> 
> By the way having looked at the code for StarMath and bit of VCL
> headers, I'm left wondering is there a policy against comments ? :)

Hehe, I'm not sure that there is a stated policy against comments...
because there are lots of useless ones in some places.

> Anyway, would like to know what you think of my proposal... Is it too
> small or big? Would be better if focused on fixing misalignment and
> then took care of the editing interface if I had time for it ?
> Also, if you'd like it, I'll do some mock-ups before final submission...

Eric: that question is for you ;)

Regards,

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Cedric




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