[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hxournal-0.5.0.0 - A pen notetaking program written in haskell

[Edward Z. Yang]

Very fancy! I am a big fan of Xournal, so I will have to take this for a spin.

Edward

Excerpts from Ian-Woo Kim's message of Mon Dec 12 06:56:09 -0500 2011:
> Hi, everyone,
> 
> I am very pleased to announce a pen notetaking program: hxournal,
> which is written entirely in haskell using gtk2hs.
> 
> I uploaded the package on hackage. This program accompanies with
> two library packages, xournal-parser and xournal-render for parsing
> and rendering xournal format file.
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxournal
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-parser
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-render
> 
> Installing hxournal should be very simple:
> > cabal update
> > cabal install hxournal
> 
> hxournal can be currently regarded as a clone of xournal, which is a
> notetaking program developed in C. (See
> http://xournal.sourceforge.net)
> 
> As xournal, hxournal can take wacom tablet X11 input in subpixel unit
> so that it can result in very smooth notetaking experience.
> 
> Currently, basic pen operations and eraser operations, file open/save
> operations, rectangular selection, cut/copy/paste operations have been
> implemented. So the application is semi-usable. The file format is
> the same as xournal but gunzipped. So to view/edit xoj files generated
> from xournal, just gunzip the xoj files and read them in hxournal.
> Gunzipped xoj files generated from hxournal are readable in xournal
> program.
> 
> One NEW special feature of hxournal compared with xournal:
> This program can make a split view (horizontal and vertical and
> arbitrary combination of them) of the same document similarly to emacs
> buffers and windows. Please try Horizontal/Vertical Split in View menu
> of the program. This will be convenient when notetaking a long
> document.
> 
> The git repository is located at https://www.github.com/wavewave/hxournal
> The program web page and development web/wiki pages will be announced
> soon (it will be linked from package webpage on hackage anyway) and
> the detailed manual will be presented there.
> 
> Thank you for your interest.
> Enjoy haskell notetaking!
> 
> Ian-Woo Kim
>