3 This is a tasklist/todo list for the 0.13.x development series. We
4 should perhaps name these seies LyX3 as a common name. As I see it
5 there are three major tasks to be done:
7 o Buffer structure rewrite
8 So that it will be easier to expand for
9 new and unknow future features.
10 The main problems with the current structure is that
11 is intended to be viewed by only one window at the
12 time. It also uses characters as the smallest unit, it
13 would probably be better to use something a bit
15 The LyXText class does not necessarily need to change
16 a lot, it could be per-view. However all the special
17 code in it needs to be (re)moved. Also a lot of the
18 functionality needs to be relocated.
19 o Switch to LaTeX as fileformat
20 Will ease move from latex to LyX a lot.
21 Also will let people work both in (ex) emacs
22 and LyX on the same files.
24 Should be a compile time switch what gui (toolkit)
25 you wish to use. We are going to support Xforms first,
26 and I am sure that GTK and Qt will follow soon. I also
27 plan to do support for Fl (even a text only toolkit
28 should be possible. ncurses perhaps. Even the
29 lyxserver could be a special case of this: a view with
30 no view being able to coexist with other views or alone)
31 We will do this by providing an interface all the
32 toolkits will need to follow. Functions that the LyX
33 core will expect to be there.
35 When these three is finished, we will probably declare a code freeze
36 and try to release a new version. Hopefully other features has also
37 been added, and none removed.
42 In addition to these there are a lot of small tasks that should be
43 performed, that has no direct bearing on features, but are more geared
46 o always try to use POSIX commands.
47 o switch to use POSIX signals
48 o make as much as possible of the code reentreanant(?)
49 should make it easier to move to threads later.
50 o signal slot mechanism (borrowed from GTK-- project)
51 better interface, leaner code, typesafe. I have
52 been using this for another project and it works
54 o other code rewrites to make multiple buffers/windows
55 possible, without too much hassle.
56 - get rid of most of the global variables.
57 - non shared variables in shared structures
58 (i.e. the cursor in the text class)
59 o make source documentation better. Remember that the better
60 we document LyX internals the easier is it for new
61 developers to begin working on LyX.
64 Some other things related to structure and services in the code:
65 o class FileInfo does way too much, move the unneeded parts to
66 a super class or friends.
67 o a process manager class to handle execution of external
69 - ensure that not too many commands are executed at
71 - ensure that non-compatible commands are running at
73 - to setup file descriptors where communicating with
74 the processes can take place.
75 o pass an inforeceiver around in the object structure.
76 (this instead of passing minibuffers, and lyxerrors.)
80 Also a lot of new features are thought of, only some of these are likely
83 o rewrite of table code. Should probably be written as some
84 kind of an inset. At least get the code out of the kernel.
88 o index support (and multiple indeces support)
90 o tocs for each section
92 o multiple table of contentes
95 o better version control (both document and file wise)
99 o I am sure mathed improvements. (Alejandro's department)
100 - better macro support
101 - better amsmath support
102 o character styles (similar to emph and noun)
103 Will make a lot of small things conceptual instead of
104 specific. Will be alot easier to change the
105 presentation of a filename f.ex. This is actually very
106 important, because this is where the user can't be
107 conceptual in the current version.
108 o macro support. Similar to the math-macro support, but
109 usable in regular text too.
110 o support for abbrevations (static macros)
111 o add a incremental search function.
112 o change the "Find and Replace" to Query Replace.
113 o better/more search functions:
114 - replace & find next
115 - replace & find previous
116 We should perhaps try to make the interface a bit
117 emacs like, that should at least give us the
119 o improved template support.
120 o collapse "New" and "New from Template" into one item.
121 o make lyx recognize some file types (i.e. gzipped) and do
122 the right thing when encountering them.
123 o We should look at all the LyX specific paragraph styles and
124 check carefully that we really need them. We should also try
125 to collapse some of them into singel items (i.e. chapter and
127 o the "LyX-Code" environment should be removed. Add a verbatim
131 o better graphics support
132 o rotating and scaling of text
133 o PSTricks (we should be able to support some of this package)
134 o better reference support
136 o better citation support
137 Especially the support for some of the main
138 bibtex supplied styles are needed. (harvard natbib...)
139 A complete support for natbib should perhaps be enough.
140 o improved spellchecker
141 - an ispell class should be made, this should
142 take care of communicating with the ispell
144 o online configuration
145 So that users should not need to edit lyxrc
148 T1-lib font renderer.
149 o better latex code quality
150 This means reading LaTeX books to get an better idea
151 on how things are done in the latex world.
152 o perhaps find better names for the paragraph styles
153 "paragraph" and "subparagraph"
154 o support for filecontents
155 This can make a latex document selfcontained, all the
156 needed graphics can be in the document.
157 o support for optional args to latex commands
158 - For sectioning commands I have an idea on how we can
159 do this: have a popup on RMB to set properties.
163 - url.sty (or better packages)
165 o references to external documents
167 o better babel support
168 - make it possible to tune the language strings
169 - the possibility for several languages in the same
174 o better float support (allow user to make its own floats)
175 o support newtheorem (allow user to make its own thorem like envirs)
176 o a bit more wysiwyg where it is appropiate.
177 - show bullets the way they will be on paper
178 - show a few more characters as they will be on paper
180 o online generation of new paragraph styles (or editing or old
182 o support for inlined sectioning commands (i.e. \paragraph{} )
183 o we should parse the command line ourselves.
184 o remove support for XResources, with multiple toolkits it
185 will be impossible to manage. And they are not very needed
187 o the possebility to collapse parts of the document.
188 (i.e. collapse the contents of a section. Would make moving
189 parts of the document around very easy)
190 o better LyXServer support
191 - perhaps use UNIX sockets instead of pipes
192 - make a decent protocol with return codes.
193 - make it indepentent of the GUI
194 - prob: concurrency (locks)
195 o other packages to support:
196 - keyval (we should not use it directly, but know how
197 to parse options for it.)
203 I am sure others has a list as long as mine...
206 ======================
208 We should also do some work to enhance the support we already have for
209 some packages, I think these are the packages supported by 0.12:
210 - longtable - color (papercolor boxes?)
211 - setspace (should support setting spacing on individual paragraphs)
214 - verbatim - algorithm
215 - inputenc - fancyhdr (we only have _very_ basic support)
219 (I am sure I have forgot some, please fill me in.)
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224 If you have other wishes for features, or comments, please let us know.
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