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  • From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: a "terrible" question
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 15:22:16 +0200
Dear all,

I do have to say a few things about LaTeX here:

- In my experience, LaTeX is inconsistent with itself. I have experienced
non-trivial changes between LaTeX executions on different machines and
non-trivial changes when adding certain packages such as hyperref.

So: for people who are afraid of our TeXmacs -> LaTeX export,
they also should be afraid of executing LaTeX on different machines or
when making apparently benign changes.

- TeXmacs has the advantage of generating high quality "standard" LaTeX.
Springer actually contacted me once whether they could use one of my
papers
as a demo for "how to write the kind of LaTeX that they wanted to have"
(not realizing that this kind of LaTeX was precisely not hand-written).
So, in a sense, one may have less trouble with documents generated via
TeXmacs,
even though it is always good to double-check (for reasons that were
mentioned).

Best wishes, --Joris



On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:58:31AM +0200, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> Dear Patrick
>
> I use very often conversion to LaTeX from TeXmacs and what your colleagues
> claim does not seems true to me.
>
> The LaTeX code which TeXmacs generates is perfectly normal and with very
> few macros and usually compile fines even if you still have to check. There
> could be of course problems and in case you find some bug/problem it is
> important that you report it in the texmacs-dev mailing list (or here) so
> that we can try to fix it.
>
> Since TeXmacs is not based on LaTeX the conversion process is nontrivial
> but usually if you do not do crazy stuff in your TeXmacs document
> everything should work fine. Again, it could happen that the file does not
> compile but it is usually easy to fix.
>
> Anyway here or in the forum you can ask for help in case something is not
> working.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Massimiliano Gubinelli
>
>
> > On 6. Apr 2021, at 11:28, patrick Teller <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > dear colleagues
> >
> > I do not know TeX (I was lazzy) and I write courses and problems using
> > TeXmacs.
> >
> > I will have to submit a paper in LateX and colleagues tell me that
> > TeXmacs's LateX is bad and has compiling problems.
> >
> > Do you think I may submit the paper written with TeXmacs and saved in
> > LateX through TeXmacs ?
> >
> > thank you for your help
> >
> > Patrick Teller
> >
> > Le 05/03/2021 à 22:17, TeXmacs a écrit :
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I am happy to announce the release of TeXmacs 1.99.19.
> >>
> >> The new release consists mainly of a large number of bug fixes,
> >> including many fixes for sporadic segfaults during LaTeX imports.
> >>
> >> The new release also comes with a further enhanced structured
> >> search and replace facility. You may now use wildcards both
> >> during structured search _and_ structured search and replace.
> >> (Example: swap the numerator and denominator of a fraction;
> >> wildcards are inserted using C-1, C-2, ...)
> >> You may also modify some preferences for search & replace.
> >>
> >> Best wishes, --Joris
>

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