Darcy Shen is a Scala enthusiast working as a Data Engineer.

He started to translate the TeXmacs documents into Chinese in 2013 and began his TeXmacs hacking since then.

1.Notes and Videos

• N: Build TeXmacs using CMake and MXE on WSL for Windows (gitee/github)

• N: Build TeXmacs using CMake and Homebrew (gitee/github)

• N: Customizing the color of code snippets (gitee/github)

• V: GNU TeXmacs: 一个科技编辑平台 (Slides/Bilibili)

2.Activities

Infrastructure

CMake

Maintain the CMake build definition for better IDE integration and maintainability.

Git

A directory-level synchronization from SVN to Git. Currently, we accepts pull requests from Github. Developers who are only interested in plugins can contribute to the plugins sub-project directly. Translators are also welcomed to contribute to the doc sub-project.

Tests

Introduce GTest for C++ and aggregates Scheme unit tests under (run-all-tests).

Plugins

Graph

Re-implement existing plugins (Asymptote/DraTex/Gnuplot/Graphviz/Xy-pic) using Python, and add several new plugins (Mermaid/PlantUML/TikZ). Implemented in Python, these plugins should work on GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows.

Octave

Started to maintain the Octave plugin since 2020. Improve plotting based on Lorenzo Lunelli's work and add support for tab completion.

Git

With the help of Joris, add partial support for Git as a versioning tool

Scala

see ammonite. Full-featured Scala REPL Session based on Ammonite REPL.

Language

Chinese

Translations of the built-in documents and the english2chinese dictionary

Chinese

Use Tab to type accented pinyin quickly

Chinese

Tune default fonts for TeXmacs on macOS and Windows

Esperanto

Use Tab to type special characters quickly

Code

• Java/Scala/JavaScript/Octave/Graphviz/JSON support

• TODO: Rust, Julia, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Swift, Groovy, Lua, Objective-C, Elixir, Kotlin, Ruby support

• TODO: SQL support

• TODO: Markdown/reStructuredText support

• TODO: XML/TOML/INI support

3.Plans in 2021

• Make GNU TeXmacs faster