Because I am only one person, I had to scope this project in many areas, and it is not a perfect system. There are many elements to create a mapping for, beyond the scope of this project, in the web to provide socket connections between devices, and also various recording and other uses of device sensors that could be expressed through typesetting.


Think of this project as the first sketch or proof of concept of a much bigger idea with much broader strokes---deeper in mathematics and even across other fields. The main point is to bring mathematicians closer to Web publishing that they are currently, by mapping typesetting to interactive programming:


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Another way to span the gulf is for the users to change their own conceptualization of the problem so that they come to think of it in the same terms as the system. In some sense, this means that the gulf is bridged by moving the user 
closer to the system \cite[328]{directmanipulation}
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A Sketch

New features that could make the platform better would be the ability to easily upload images and datasets. I think it would be great if a researcher could visualize the data that they are writing about in real-time. 


Also, there could be some post-processing of \TeX\ to optimize some of the generated elements instead of requiring everything to be done at the client. This could improve some areas of performance and do syntax checking for PDF output, etc. It would also provide the ability to determine objects referenced in the bibliography better.


Figures aren't as structured as they could be, and tables don't exist yet. They definitely should be implemented.


The ability to allow users to upload their own macros. This can be very useful, espcially for porting a lot of older documentation that relies on macros to render properly without a major refactor.


Enabling the ability to add functions that generate PSTricks code in JavaScript. This way the platform can evolve with the authors, and abstract the \TeX\ away over time as people become more programming literate.


From a Web standpoint, caching could be implemented, and a few other improvements as time permits. 

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