On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:25 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Lyx devels, > > I have received very few responses to my previous round call of possible > mentors for the upcoming 2014 GSOC.
> - Scott (Horizontal scrollbar for tables and math) [1] I never actually helped on this. All the burden was on JMarc. I'm not qualified enough to be a primary mentor on any of the projects. I've been trying to think of a project that I would be qualified for. Below are some ideas. Feasible idea #1 Here is my most feasible idea so far: An integrated grammar checker. Reasons why I call this "feasible": - There is a chance that John McCabe-Dansted would be interested in being co-mentor (although I have not asked him). - There has already been work done on it [2]. - (the main advantage) It could be implemented in a similar way to LyX's spell checker. If LyX can find a grammar checking library (e.g. Language Tool [1]), then the feature is enabled, just like LyX's spell checker looks for spellchecking dictionaries. I believe that there are enough similarities to the spell checker that the student and I could learn from the spell checker code; but that there are enough challenges (e.g. the input would not be just one word) that it would be a significant workload and contribution. Feasible idea #2 - CAS Integration with SAGE or (better) integration with Maxima. We often get complaints that LyX does not have good enough CAS support. I think that this is straight-forward enough that I could mentor better integration. There are not clearly defined goals though. We would need to identify things that are not working and make it clear what needs to be fixed. Feasible idea #3 I still think something should be done about the fact that a user can open a LyX file that someone posted asking for help, compile, and have all of his/her $HOME files uploaded/deleted. This is because of the knitr/Sweave module (and an inset can be easily closed and hidden). The user should be notified whenever a file has a "dangerous" module for the first time. Richard had a good idea for solving the security issue but not being intrusive (= only warning a user once per file even if that file is subsequently changed). I believe it is complicated enough for a GSoC but I don't think other LyX devels are as interested in this being implemented as I am. Thoughts? Scott [1] https://www.languagetool.org/ [2] http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker
