Enso TeX Anywhere

I have no idea of new products.
I would better suggest a single product, all in one…
Having several products doesn’t really fit the model of simplicity which the name “Enso” itself would mean… I think.

An easy one: Please implement some timer/alarm functionality.

Example: ‘timer 5min’ triggers an alarm 5 minutes from now.

When the alarm goes off, it might display a transparent message at regular intervals and produce some sound until the user says ‘timer off’, or something like that.

I know there are probably hundreds of timer/alarm applications out there, but none of them would be as easy to use and as well-integrated as an enso command.

And I guess this would be really easy to implement for you guys.

I want to suggest 2 products

1) some clipboard extender which allow to insert any text or graphics to the current cursor position

2) ability to “say some selected text” using text-to-speech feature for Windows OS

I say that…

Goo[Enter]-d[Enter]

…should text-complete to Google-define. Right now the dash starts a new word rather than continuing off of the Google base.

I have seen the “chat ‘buddy name’” idea suggested before and I think that would be a good one.

“go” with no arguments should bring you back to the last active window.

Some sort of “learn as go” command would be nice. I’d also like if there were some way to have it search for a window’s title like this “* - e” since the title always changes with different files open.

“send email ‘email@address.com’” (or something similar) would be a good idea. If this could read from a contact list in Thunderbird so we could use nicknames that would be ideal, but if not, the email alone would be fine.

I may think of some more, but this is good for now

BTW, thanks for the updates. Looking forward to more progress.

When I type O[Enter]G[Enter] I get “open game controllers”

Shouldn’t a single [Backspace] take me back to “open g”?

That is, the [Backspace] undoes the affect of the previous [Enter]. It seems more natural and useful to me.

Product suggestion: a note application.

Enso is great because it’s instantly accessible. A note application would allow me to quickly type in my thoughts/todo’s/reminders without breaking the flow of what I’m doing.

I’ve seen Aza’s example of learning a command that opens a txt file in notepad. Something more seamless would be even better.

“save x” to save the current selection to disk (doesn’t matter where). “load x” to replace the current selection with the saved selection. Would work similar to “learn as open”.
“learn as do x” to save the currently selected executable/batch file/script as a shortcut. “do x {arguments}” would then run that executable with any arguments, and pipe it the selection on STDIN. Its STDOUT would replace the selection.
Second that “email” command request. It should send the selection to the address(es) provided as arguments.

The email command could be really interesting, especially if it attaches the currently selected files. E.g. with GMail it takes much time to add 5 or 10 files. I think Jef Raskin was already talking about this command in his book.

Tried to install Enso TeX Anywhere on my Windows (german version of WinXP, SP2) but always get a

“Setup was not completed successfully.
Please run the UPDATE command to update Enso, then run this installer again.”

I have updated Enso but the error remains…

Another thing: To deserve the name “Anywhere” it should be possible to run the program from the USB Stick (aka portable app). Is this possible?

Thanks,
Mike

I’ve got the same error as Richard Hunt, except that I was asked to retrieve the Enso Launcher. This is a big nuisance, as it is the evening before the time I was to demonstrate Enso TeX Anywhere.

For Enso Tex, I think a really useful addition would be to combine this product with the calculator, so that once I turn something into the pretty math fonts, I am still able to get a value for it by highlighting it and typing calculate.

Enso TeX Anywhere does not seem to work with Google Presentation. I guess that’s problem in Google’s side, but it would be great if you could work this out, since having decent way to enter formulas in online presentation software would be great day for many researchers and lecturers on math-intensive fields.

Also, it would be great if the formula could be somehow formatted according the context, ie bigger and with blue (transparent) background.

(One remark: it is actually already easier to use Enso to enter formulas to Powerpoint than it is to use MS Equation Editor.)

As has been mentioned by Tom, it would be nice if the fontsize (i.e. the resolution of the produced tex-picture), would somehow be determined from the fontsize of the original TeX-code. This would be a great help in presentation programs, e.g. MS PowerPoint where it is of great importance that the text isn’t too smaal for it to be read from a video projector image.

Could it be possible to add a function like ’save TeX’ that saves the TeX formula as a picture to the clipboard (or put buffer) instead of saving it as HTML-code. Because then it would work in more application.
For instance the TeX doesn’t work with Works now. So I have to create the formula in Hotmail, print screen it, go to paint, cut it out and copy the pixels to Works.

I tried to render some TeX into this comment section (after all, it says HTML ok). This was the result:

Enso TeX Anywhere only works in places where HTML can be pasted, sorry.

My point is that though I really like the TeX prototype, I cant seem to find many apps that it works with. John’s suggestion may be fruitful.

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