Hi, We would like to have tools for publishing on the Web, using Zope and GNU TeXmacs (see http://www.texmacs.org). The main idea is very simple: 1. Have one or more web sites running under Zope where documents will be published. 2. Make it possible to load/save TeXmacs documents directly from/to such a web site. In addition, we would like to have tools for being able to decorate pages, annotate pages, referee pages, catalogue pages, search the site, rate pages, costumized navigation, history management, display news on (certain topics of) the site, automatically create online journals, and much more. We are searching for volunteers who know Zope well to help us with this project. The idea would be that one group of people writes the necessary tools on the server side (which might also be useful in combination with other frontends than TeXmacs) and that we take care of the application side. We might start as follows: 1. Someone sets up and maintains an experimental server somewhere on the web (later this might be done on texmacs.org). 2. We agree on a good protocol for saving & loading documents. One might for instance use the post method of a form in order to save (a region of) a document. 3. We are working on Html/Xml converters and web support inside TeXmacs; it would be nice to automatically generate Html translations (for instance) of TeXmacs documents (there might be some information loss here, like the disappearing of mathemematical formulas). Then we might provide an Html version of a page when browsing the site using a conventional navigator and the TeXmacs version when browsing using TeXmacs. 4. Create the necessary administration tools for managing permissions, passwords, etc. This should be easy in Zope, but we might need some conventions on how to do this in combination with TeXmacs. 5. Find a way to automatically decorate the TeXmacs documents, downloaded from the Web, like providing a dynamic header and a footer. These decorations might be in Html (modulo a better Html->TeXmacs converter). As a first goal, these tools may be used to create a collaborative website for the documentation of TeXmacs itself. This might be a good test for a very basic implementation. Next, the implementation might evolve towards a more complete publishing system. So: are there any volunteers ? Maybe it is possible to adapt some existing work on this? Thanks, Joris ----------------------------------------------------------- Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoeven@texmacs.org> http://www.texmacs.org: GNU TeXmacs scientific text editor http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven: personal homepage -----------------------------------------------------------