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Re: Nested enumerations appearance


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  • From: Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>
  • To: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
  • Cc: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: Nested enumerations appearance
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:42:35 +0100

Thanks Joris,

I’ll await the next TeXmacs release for this specific use then.

Regards,

Pierre-Henri

> Le 20 nov. 2020 à 12:20, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Hi Pierre-Henri,
>
> Each list environment (e.g. enumerate) comes with two variants
> enumerate* and enumerate-continued. For the moment, they are not
> exposed in the interface though. For the next release, I added
> a style package prefix-enumerate with a global setting to make
> what you want the default.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:36:21AM +0100, Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago I wanted to try editing in TeXmacs a math test for
>> my students, and I renounced it because of nested enumeration style and
>> used latex instead.
>>
>> TeXmacs gave me this :
>> 1.
>>
>> a.
>>
>> b.
>>
>> when I would have liked this instead :
>> 1.a)
>>
>> 1.b)
>>
>> Of course there might be times when I would want to write :
>> 1. In this question, f is supposed to be… and we’ll show that…
>>
>> then the question would be subdivided into subquestions but, most of the
>> time, I just want the second presentation quoted before.
>>
>> Of course I tried to find the answer in the documentation, and by
>> experimenting. I am slowly learning, but despite having spent quite some
>> time, I am not there yet.
>>
>> From what I could understand, customizing enumerations appearance might be
>> done with redefining render-list macro. Being such a newbie, it took me
>> some time to understand how I would add this macro at the top of my
>> document (entering source mode et al), and I struggled a bit with the
>> inactive tag before finding the answer in the documentation, that is, I
>> have to hit return key, and this inside the command itself to get rid of
>> the inactive tag… (I know this might sound stupid to many of you, but I
>> think it might be good to document the difficulties I am encountering
>> while slowly getting accustomed to TeXmacs, hence the learning curve I
>> wrote about…)
>>
>> Introducing this as a preamble to my document :
>> <assign|render-list|<macro|body|<surround|||body>>>
>> I obviously managed to change enumeration appearance (and of course, it is
>> garbage with everything stuck to the left with no margin whatsoever), but
>> I am a bit surprised to see that there still is a vertical separation
>> between the top and the inside enumerate items, so it makes me think this
>> might not be the solution I am looking for…
>>
>> So am I in the right direction ? (I suppose not…)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pierre-Henri




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