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Re: a "terrible" question


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  • From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: a "terrible" question
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 22:03:15 +0200

Hi Frank,

This particular bug has been fixed in revision 13406.
Please report potential other bugs concerning LaTeX conversions
on our bug tracker.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 04:43:42PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> Hi Joris,
>
> It seems to me that there are some issues about the default LaTeX template
> exported from TeXmacs (document style is amsart).
>
> I export the current article that I am writing, and there are issues in the
> preamble. I have removed all the contents, but the compilation is still
> failing. I attach the exported LaTeX file.
>
> I suppose that it might be better to fix such kind of issues instead of
> letting users modify the exported LaTeX files. I cannot remember whether I
> have reported this bug before - seemingly I might have done it.
>
> Best wishes,
> Frank
>
> On 4/6/21, TeXmacs wrote:
> >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
> >>

> \documentclass{amsart}
> \usepackage[english]{babel}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{geometry,amssymb,graphicx,enumerate,hyperref,mathtools,cleveref,theorem}
> \geometry{a4paper}
>
> %%%%%%%%%% Start TeXmacs macros
> \newtheorem{conjecture}{Conjecture}
> \newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}
> \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
> {\theorembodyfont{\rmfamily}\newtheorem{example}{Example}}
> \newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}
> \newtheorem{notation}{Notation}
> \newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}
> {\theorembodyfont{\rmfamily}\newtheorem{question}{Question}}
> {\theorembodyfont{\rmfamily}\newtheorem{remark}{Remark}}
> \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}
> {\theorembodyfont{\rmfamily}\newtheorem{warning}{Warning}}
> %%%%%%%%%% End TeXmacs macros
>
> \begin{document}
> Test
> \end{document}




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