[texworks] Wishlist for pdf previewer

[Carlo Marmo]

Wow Felix, this is great! thank you
Carlo

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Felix Wieczorek <felix at wieczorek-systems.de
> wrote:

>
> ----- Message from Carlo Marmo <carlo.marmo at gmail.com> ---------
>
>
>  Thank you Jonathan. This point was not clear to me. For this special
>> purpose, I'll keep ms word.
>> Carlo
>>
>
> you don't have to use word for that purpose, flesh (
> http://flesh.sourceforge.net/**) does process pdf files directly.
>
> Felix
>
>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>**
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 26 Sep 2011, at 14:42, Carlo Marmo wrote:
>>>
>>> > Well, I agree common sense and experience should definitely do the job.
>>> > Sometime, in order to meet special requirements, I have to provide the
>>> Flesch?Kincaid readability index for each piece of writing I submit to my
>>> institution. This provide numeric data that measures how easy it is to
>>> read
>>> your document. Ms Word has a special readability built-in tool. So I have
>>> to
>>> convert my output pdf files in .doc to check readability trough ms word.
>>> From my point of view, it would be great to have a similar tool for Tw.
>>>
>>> Such a tool doesn't belong as part of TW, in my opinion.
>>>
>>> It would be virtually impossible to implement this in a general way, so
>>> that it would work with arbitrary (La|Con|*)TeX(t) documents; any such
>>> tool
>>> would be designed for a certain limited class of documents (e.g. a
>>> specific
>>> language, using a particular collection of LaTeX packages and a carefully
>>> controlled layout), and would need to be adapted to work under different
>>> circumstances.
>>>
>>> If the documents that matter to you follow a sufficiently well-defined
>>> form
>>> that you can reliably implement something like this, fine: do so as an
>>> external tool, and run it from a script if you want to access it from
>>> within
>>> TW. But it won't be a generic "readability analyser" for TeX documents,
>>> it'll be a special-purpose tool for your specific needs, and it doesn't
>>> belong in the actual TW product.
>>>
>>> JK
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:18 PM, BPJ <bpj at melroch.se> wrote:
>>> > On 2011-09-26 08:51, Carlo Marmo wrote:
>>> > not sure this is duable or relevant for most of you. what about adding
>>> an
>>> > index of readability tool like ms word?
>>> >
>>> > Wouldn't that be (human) language-dependent? Or are you talking of
>>> > *graphical* readability? I prefer to use my acquired experience /
>>> > common sense for both kinds (except that philological typesetting
>>> > is rather restricted to a few, fortunately quite good, fonts for
>>> > availability reasons).
>>> >
>>> > /bpj
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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