Wiki:Wishlist (old)

Here's a wish list for the gardner :)

Ideas

... a place to collect ideas to make the garden even better ...

wiki

• Are the <context> images rendered using gs? In that case, could -sDEVICE=pngalpha be used to get transparent images?
• adding <xmlcode> (code highlighter is already written) or, if not too complicated, something more general like <code type="xml">, <code type="mp">, ...
• adding <latex> counterpart to <context>; mostly in order to be able to compare LaTeX and ConTeXt results or to be able to describe the desired result in Category:From LaTeX

archive

• Is it possible to download attachments?
• I vaguely remember you were talking about using some other program for the html-ization (instead of / next to Lurker). Is that likely to happen any time soon?

articles

• archiving articles (if allowed) or at least adding direct URLs to them
• sort by author/magazine number/title
• a form to submit proposals for new entries
• maybe: adding talks in conferences (EuroTeX, ...)
• unimportant: exporting bibtex entries about the magazine (in plain and Taco's format)

source

• displaying *.hyp and *.pat files as plain text instead of "sorry, I don't know how to display the file"
• adding <a name="line xxx"> at the beginning of every line in the source code as to be able to reference to a certain line in hyperlinks (on the other hand: it may be a bad idea to be able to point to a certain line since the files are a subject to change)
• perhaps adding <a name="ccedilla"> to places where \definecharacter stands in a similar way as the alt name= are added in front of \def\somecommand (on the other hand: a bad idea since there may be more than two definitions of a single named character in one file)
• serching/highlighting more that one word
• if the user comes from google, parse the URL for &q=somequery and add ?search=somequery at the end of the new URL

Example: if someone searches for hack in google and follows the link to supp-vis.tex, the site http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/supp-vis.tex?search=hack would open instead

general

• adding http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif interface to contextgarden

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<table>
  <tr>
    <td><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" alt="Google" border="0"></td>
    <td>
      <input name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" type="text">
      <input name="btnG" value="Search" type="submit">
      <input name="domains" value="contextgarden.net;pragma-ade.com;ctan.org" type="hidden">
      <input name="sitesearch" value="contextgarden.net" type="hidden">
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>

• this is probably not so easy, but it would be great if there would be a way, similar to the interwiki functionality, which would allow linking from one garden module to another, say:
  • [[source:context.tex]] to link to http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/context.tex
  • [[texshow:section]] to link to http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ts.rb?what=desc&cmd=section (behaviour of frames should be fixed for that)
  • [[texshow:de:abschnitt]] to link to http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ts.rb?what=desc&if=de&cmd=section
  •  ??? to link to messages/threads in the archive