1.Description

The purpose of this task is to make the community for the development of TeXmacs plug-ins as dynamic as possible and to ensure some minimal quality standards (basic documentation, appropriate maintainance and portability). The task leader will take care of the following aspects:

• Keeping an up to date list with the authors and maintainers of individual plug-ins.

• Push the maintainers of plug-ins to provide minimal documentation.

• Push the maintainers of plug-ins to ensure regular testing of plug-ins on various platforms.

• Push the maintainers of plug-ins to fix the plug-ins in case of bugs.

• If a maintainer lost interest in the project, then find an appropriate successor.

• Assist the maintainers of plug-ins when they need technical help and give them appropriate suggestions on how to improve their plug-ins.

• Maintaining the webpages relative to this task.

2.Current task leader

Andrey Grozin.

3.Other participants

Grégoire Lecerf, Denis Raux.

4.Further comments

This task is quite extensive, so Andrey Grozin will be assisted by some of the other participants for some more specific issues. In particular:

• Grégoire Lecerf maintains the Mathemagix plug-in, which should become The Example Plug-in in which you will find demos for the main plug-in related features of TeXmacs.

  In particular, the communication between TeXmacs and Mathemagix uses the Scheme format, which is most appropriate if you want the interface to be as rich as possible. However, this format is sometimes less convenient if you cannot modify the source code of the system for which you are building an interface.

• Denis Raux maintains the Windows port of TeXmacs and may help you out in order to get things working under Windows.