- From: Jizhe Zhang <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] A bunch of questions from a novice, mainly about shortcut
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:56:10 -0700
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
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On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:57 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Hi Dear all,
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> I just started to use TeXmacs. It's indeed a good tool especially to
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> write
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> small documents. But I encounter a bunch of problems described in the
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> following. BTW, I am using windows 7.
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Welcome, and glad to see you join us :)
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> 1 The document says that alt+right can generate a new column in the
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> table
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> environment. I tried, but the only thing happens is that on the left
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> footer
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> there is a line saying "keyboard shortcut: alt+right", other than that
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> nothing
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> happens. Is there anything I missed?
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Okay, I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one!
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Sometimes system-wide bindings interfere with TeXmacs bindings, so you
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might have to either go for trial-and-error (works most of the time) or try
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other meta keys (editable in something like Edit > Preferences > Keyboard, I
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don't remember exactly where).
Thanks, now I see that it's not my problem :). Trial and error doesn't
work for me. In Edit->Preference-> Keyboard I cannot see the place to
change the meta keys. as opposed to most of the introduction :(. It's
sad that I cannot figure this problem out, as most of the documents I
write need to use tables.
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If anybody has another idea, then I'd be glad to learn a little bit more
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about that! (maybe a way to display debug information about keys?)
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> 2 Obviously lots of commands are compatible with LaTeX, for example \[
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> is
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> equivalent to A+$. This gives me lots of convenience. But where can I
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> list about what commands are compatible? The \[ thing doesn't appear in
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> the
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Interested in that as well. Most of the time, though, the shortcuts are
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amazingly easier than LaTeX. What kind of commands are you interested in
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particular?
Alright, that's not such an urgent problem. Just curious :)
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> 3 How to insert the title with command? Especially where can I find a
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> comprehensive document about commands? In the manual it's mostly
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> keyboard
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> shortcuts, but I prefer these commands personally. They are easy to
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> and similar to LaTex
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Usually I insert sections with ^1, ^2 and ^3, but titles only have the
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toolbar shortcut, AFAIK. Anyone knows better?
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> I think these are the most urgent problems I have when using TeXmacs.
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> As a novice I also have some thoughts about TeXmacs. No doubt that it's
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> a great
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> word processor. I fell in love with it immediately after ten minutes of
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> trial.
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> However, I cannot find a very good document about this great tool. The
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> only
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> user document is only less than 100 pages long and lots of important
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> things are
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> too concise. Comparing to LaTeX, an entry level tutorial is about that
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> length.
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> I believe that it's one of the greatest obstacle when making this
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> fantastic
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> tool more popular. A novice like me will soon get very frustrated when
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> he finds
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> that lots of questions remain unsolved even in the so called user
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> manual. Also
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> the helping documents are spread everywhere and not consistent. The
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> downloaded
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> document is even not the same as the document on the website. Lots of
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> links on
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> the website are lost.
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I always feel intimidated by the fact that I use less than 10% of TeXmacs
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power, but alas there is still a lot of work involved...
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What I would really, really like is some kind of a cookbook (like
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http://coffeescriptcookbook.com/ or http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook) that
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showcases easy, intermediate and advanced use cases for TeXmacs. I could
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maybe write some of the easiest examples, but I'm like you, I'm sorely
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lacking knowledge in advanced TeXmacs topics...
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Yeah, I strongly agree that some cookbook will be of great help,
especially to new users like me. Maybe after I am familiar with
TeXmacs I will write some simple tutorials in Chinese and bring more
users to this community.
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Anyway, I hope that helped in some way, or if not, that it'll spark the
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interest of a more knowledgable member of this mailing list!
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Thanks a lot for your help!
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Cheers,
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François-Xavier
Best
JZ
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