[GSoC] Introducing Raniere Silva and his proposal about a LaTeX keyboard

[Salvador de la Puente González]

Hi everybody!

I want to introduce Raniere Silve to Gaia developers and WebAPI mailing
lists. Raniere is participating in the 10th Google Summer of Code: his
project has been accepted by the Mozilla organization and I was chosen
to be his mentor.

You can review his proposal at [1] and [2]. In short: we want to offer a
keyboard layout to efficiently write LaTeX mark-up for mathematical
purposes.

I want to introduce him to David and Rudy specifically because they are
the owners of the keyboard and it is probable we need feedback or review
from their side.

Following Florien recommendations in [3], my main concern is how to
integrate Raniere patches into the master branch in order to avoid a
huge patch at the end of the contest. Raniere open a fork and a branch
in [4] but we could have a branch / branches in Gaia main repository for
GSoC accepted projects if you want. We will file bugs in bugzilla
pointing the branch we agree for that end. If finally, the patches land
on master branch, nothing more is required but if they land in another
branch we will open an integration bug from milestone to milestone.

Anyway I want Raniere get used to the keyboard as soon as possible so
Rudy, David, could you point me some bug to mentor in the keyboard side?

The first approach can be seen at [5] and as you can check we already
have our first problems related with some lack of features around
`compositekey`. Particularly the possibility of having composite
alternatives for lowercase and uppercase modes. I already sent my
feedback to Raniere but yours is welcome. We are just toying and warming
up right now.

As Florian, I think open discussions are more enriching.

[1]
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2014/r_gaia_cs/5629499534213120
[2] https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gsoc-2014-math-keyboard
[3]
http://blog.queze.net/post/2014/04/22/Thoughts-about-mentoring-Summer-of-Code-students
[4] https://github.com/r-gaia-cs/gaia/tree/greek-latex
[5]
https://github.com/r-gaia-cs/gaia/commit/c2eeb62c04a7ea65b41f6849d0cab79052d59d4b

Please Raniere, answer this mail and introduce yourself.
Thank you for your time!

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[André Jaenisch]

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Am 29.04.2014 12:00, schrieb Salvador de la Puente González:
> Please Raniere, answer this mail and introduce yourself.
> Thank you for your time!

Jay, more MathML in Firefox OS \o/
(c.f. http://blog.rgaiacs.com/)

I'm looking forward to your contribution, Raniere!

Best,

André Jaenisch

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[Raniere Silva]

Salvador,

Thanks for the introduction.

Nice to meet you!

A more update summary of the project can be seen at [1].

> Anyway I want Raniere get used to the keyboard as soon as possible so

Is there some way to always show the keyboard to debug the layout?

> The first approach can be seen at [5] and as you can check we already
> have our first problems related with some lack of features around
> `compositekey`. Particularly the possibility of having composite
> alternatives for lowercase and uppercase modes.

For those not familiar with LaTeX, the lower version of π is \pi and the upper
version is \Pi.

Thanks,
Raniere

[1] http://blog.rgaiacs.com/2014/04/22/gsoc2014.html