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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:13:56PM -0500, Corey Sweeney wrote:
> <if|<xor|<equal|1|1>|<provides|book-style>>|xxx>
>
> \not didn't seem to negate anything, it just put a line though
> everything, so i just used
> <xor|<equal|1|1>|z> instead of <not|z>.

Mmm, it is true that "not" should probably be a macro primitive...

> now, this correctly displays xxx when it is not a book, but when i go
> to put my abstract in there, I type \abstract and it dissapears. I
> try inserting via the button and it dosn't happen. I try cutting a
> abstract and pasting it in there, and nothing.
>
> So I try making a macro
> <assign|bubbs-taco|<macro|<abstract|blah blah blah>>>
>
> then
>
> <if|<xor|<equal|1|1>|<provides|book-style>>|<bubbas-taco>>
>
> which does successfully print a abstract. However, it does it without
> linewrapping, and the entire abstract is on one line.
>
> It's not a style problem, as i put 2 plain copies of the abstract,
> without a if statement and without a macro, and all is perfect with
> them.
>
> a abstract via that macro works fine outside of the if statement too.
> it seems to be the if statement that causes the abstract not to wrap
> the lines.

This is indeed not really satisfactory, but a known complication,
described in the documentation of the if primitive. What you should do
is create a macro to be called in the "if" case and a macro to be
called in the "else" case and then use something like

(compound (if condition if-macro else-macro) args)

This will correctly handle block structures.
You may take a look at the standard style files,
where this mechanism is used at several places.

Best wishes, Joris

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• visibility flags, Corey Sweeney, 07/07/2005
  • Re: [TeXmacs] visibility flags, Joris van der Hoeven, 07/07/2005
    • Re: [TeXmacs] visibility flags, Corey Sweeney, 07/08/2005
      • Re: [TeXmacs] visibility flags, Joris van der Hoeven, 07/08/2005
        • Re: [TeXmacs] visibility flags, Corey Sweeney, 07/08/2005

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