- From: François-Xavier Thomas <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] A bunch of questions from a novice, mainly about shortcut
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:01:17 -0700
Hi El,
Nice to know, definitely share your work! Now that I think about it, maybe a
wiki would be a better idea.
I think I remember mails about upgrading the website, since it's been a
while, but I don't know where that went. Anybody knows?
Anyway, maybe it'd be a better idea to start it in english first, unless
you're not that comfortable with writing in that language. In that case, I
can probably translate it.
As far as I am concerned, I'm finishing my current internship in less than a
month, and after that I'll have a few quasi-free months, so I'll try to help
the community where I can.
Cheers,
François-Xavier
On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:50 PM, El.Douwen wrote:
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hi
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i strongly demand a visual interface so totally personnalise the keyboard
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shortcuts...
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for the cookbook i have started one in french
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i send it to both of you in private mail
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maybe we could start a parallel work in our respective languages...
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Vincent
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ps : Jizhe, do you write in english or in chinesisch in TeXmacs ?
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Le 10 oct. 2012 à 23:56, Jizhe Zhang a écrit :
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:14 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
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> <address@hidden> wrote:
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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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>>>
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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
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>> try
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>> other meta keys (editable in something like Edit > Preferences >
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>> Keyboard, I
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>> don't remember exactly where).
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> Thanks, now I see that it's not my problem :). Trial and error doesn't
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> work for me. In Edit->Preference-> Keyboard I cannot see the place to
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> change the meta keys. as opposed to most of the introduction :(. It's
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> sad that I cannot figure this problem out, as most of the documents I
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> 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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>>> find a
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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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>>> manual at all.
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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?
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> 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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>>> remember
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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,
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> especially to new users like me. Maybe after I am familiar with
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> TeXmacs I will write some simple tutorials in Chinese and bring more
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> 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
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> Best
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> JZ
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