From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 17:29:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Various changes. X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~1057 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=261597d4258a15d9ef5feb2aa780da6e75a93b1b;p=emacs.git Various changes. --- diff --git a/etc/tasks.texi b/etc/tasks.texi index 2515307baad..8f218773759 100644 --- a/etc/tasks.texi +++ b/etc/tasks.texi @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ @setfilename tasks.info @settitle GNU Task List @c UPDATE THIS DATE WHENEVER YOU MAKE CHANGES! -@set lastupdate 6 April 1995 +@set lastupdate 10 March 1996 @c %**end of header @setchapternewpage off @@ -93,12 +93,11 @@ A manual for programming X-window applications. Manuals for various X window managers. @item -Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: Gawk, C +Reference cards for those manuals that don't have them: C Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap and maybe the C Library. @item -Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep}, @code{cpio}, -and other small utilities. +Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others. @end itemize @node Unix-Related Projects @@ -212,11 +211,6 @@ An emulator for Macintosh graphics calls on top of X Windows. @item A music playing and editing system. -@item -A "disk jockey" program to keep track of a collection of recorded music -samples (songs, etc), and queue up a sequence of them for playing. This -program could use rplay to do the actual playing. - @item A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display dancers moving on the screen. @@ -257,16 +251,6 @@ If you think of others that should be added, please send them to @code{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu}. @itemize @bullet -@item -[This seems to be being done:] -A program to convert Postscript to plain ASCII text. Ghostscript will -soon have a mode to output all the text strings in a document, each with -its coordinates. You could write a program to start with this output -and ``layout the page'' in ASCII. The program will be both easier and -more useful if you don't worry pedantically about how the output text -should be formatted. Instead, try to make it look reasonable as plain -ASCII. - @item A program to convert compiled programs represented in OSF ANDF (``Architecture Neutral Distribution Format'') into ANSI C. @@ -277,6 +261,10 @@ An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher. @item An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!) +@item +A text-based Web browser, somewhat like Lynx (which, unfortunately, +is not free software). + @item A program to reformat Fortran programs in a way that is pretty. @@ -290,7 +278,7 @@ A general ledger program. @item A program to typeset C code for printing. -For ideas on what to do, see the forthcoming book, +For ideas on what to do, see the book, @display Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, @@ -320,7 +308,7 @@ Software to replace card catalogues in libraries. Grammar and style checking programs. @item -An implementation of the S language (an interpreted languages used for +An implementation of the S language (an interpreted language used for statistics). @item @@ -329,16 +317,7 @@ A translator from Scheme to C. @item Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well -as character codes. This may not be very difficult if you let it -@emph{train} on part of the individual document to be scanned, so as to -learn what fonts are in use in that document. We would particularly -like to scan the Century Dictionary, an unabridged dictionary now in the -public domain. - -You don't need scanning hardware to work on OCR. We can send you -bitmaps you can use as test data. - -We may soon have an OCR program, but it will need lots of additional work. +as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. @item A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript. @@ -355,9 +334,6 @@ Software suitable for creating virtual reality user interfaces. @item CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad. -@item -Software for displaying molecules. - @item Software for comparing DNA sequences, and finding matches and alignments. @@ -367,9 +343,9 @@ alignments. @chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as -Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, or whatever, to be used with the code -generation phases of the GNU C compiler. (C++ and Objective C are done, -Fortran is now in beta test, and Ada and Pascal are being worked on. +Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, or whatever, to be used with the code +generation phases of the GNU C compiler. (C++, Objective C and Fortran +are done; Ada, Pascal and Java are being worked on. @c Fortran status is here so gnu@prep and the volunteer coordinators @c don't have to answer the question -len