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Hi there,

I'm just struggling with the intricacies of editing TeXmacs source within TeXmacs.

In particular:

* User-defined macros can be turned into a compound using the backspace key, builtin macros can't. Why is that? How do I change the name of the call to a buildin macro? Can I avoid removing it and creating a new one?

* If the first argument of a call to a user defined macro contains a <document> tag, I cannot turn it into a compound any more. Why that?

* There seems to be no way to manually create or remove <document> tags. Quite often (e.g. within tables), there is a difference between a single-line <document> tag and inline content without the <document> surrounding. However, the creation and removal of those tags happens somehow automagically without a direct way to influence it.

Generally, I have the feeling that all the built-in intelligence is rather getting in the way when editing TeXmacs source. Very often, even though I know exactly what the source-code should look like in the end, I really have to use odd tricks to produce that source-code within TeXmacs. Sometimes, I cannot find any solution but to open the source file in a regular text editor and do the changes there...

Greetings,
Norbert

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• Struggling with source mode editing, Norbert Nemec, 03/01/2007
  • Re: [TeXmacs] Struggling with source mode editing, Joris van der Hoeven, 03/03/2007

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