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Dear Ingor,

I did the necessary in revision 13836 on SVN.
I also added a 'render-caption' macro for customizing
the rendering of captions.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:56:37PM +0000, Baumann, Ingor wrote:
> Dear Joris,
>
> Thank you very much for your e-mail and your comprehensive help.
> Unfortunately, I'm only now getting around to replying to you.
>
> I didn't realize that changing the caption placement would take so much
> effort. I tried your suggestion, but I can't get it to work.
>
> Would it not be possible at this point to implement such a selection
> routine (for the placement of the captions) in the next upcoming TeXmacs
> release? This would surely help many users, since the placement of captions
> (above tables and below figures) is common practice. Especially TeXmacs
> beginners would benefit from this. Don't you think so?
>
> Best regards from Germany.
>
> Ingor
>
>
> ------ Originalnachricht ------
> Von: "TeXmacs" <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>>
> An: "address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>"
> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>>
> Gesendet: 12.01.2022 17:28:56
> Betreff: Re: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1.
>
> Dear Ingor,
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 09:29:49PM +0000, Baumann, Ingor wrote:
> 1.) I have written a book text with figures (big-figures) and tables
> (big-tables). For this I used the tmbook style, which I have somewhat
> adapted to my needs. For the figures I would like to have captions below
> and for the tables above the respective object. I have tried everything,
> but I can't get it to work. In TeXmacs v2.1.1. big tables are also declared
> as big figures in the context menu. This is surprising. When I select the
> "Captions Above" package, all captions are displayed on top of both
> objects. If not, they are displayed below. There is only an "either... or".
> Is there perhaps a bug in the program leading to this problem? Is there a
> way to use the "Captions Above" package for tables and figures
> independently? If not, how can I realize this?
>
> This kind of thing is non-trivial, since figures and tables are indeed
> both based on the same rendering macros 'render-small-figure' and
> 'render-big-figure'.
>
> There is nevertheless a general way for hacking this kind of things.
> As a first step, you should create new macros for the desired rendering.
> For instance, in your custom style package, you could create macros
> 'render-small-table' and 'render-big-table' for tables with captions above;
> you could simply copy the macros from captions-above.ts and change the
> names.
>
> As a second step, you have to hijack the 'small-table', 'big-table', etc.
> macros
> and their unnumbered variants to use these new rendering macros instead of
> the default ones. That can be achieved by saving the original definitions;
> e.g., using scheme notation:
>
> (assign "original-small-table" (value "small-table"))
>
> You next redefine the macro by seting 'render-big-figure' _locally_ to
> 'render-small-figure'. Again in scheme notation:
>
> (assign "small-table"
> (macro "tab" "cap"
> (with "render-big-figure" (value "render-big-table")
> (original-small-table (arg "tab") (arg "cap")))))
>
> (Note that a similar approach could be applied if you want a special
> rendering for propositions that is different from the rendering of
> theorems, for instance.)
>
> 2.) How can I display the header of the whole bibliography part in fancy
> style (i.e. with a line, above it chapter and section name in small
> capitals and the page number)? "Bibliography" is not a chapter. I have
> tried everything here too, but I can't get any further.
>
> Same kind of reply. I would hijack the 'bibliography' macro and
> let the hijacked rendering routine set the header to what you want.
>
> 3.) How can I set the font size and the alignment for the captions?
>
> With the above solution to 1.) you may simply change the way the captions
> are rendered when defining the customized macros 'render-small-table'
> and 'render-big-table'.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
>
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• Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., Baumann, Ingor, 01/11/2022
  • Re: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., Giovanni Piredda, 01/11/2022
  • Re: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., Massimiliano Gubinelli, 01/12/2022
  • Re: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., TeXmacs, 01/12/2022
    • Re[2]: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., Baumann, Ingor, 01/23/2022
      • Re: Problems / questions regarding TeXmacs v.2.1.1., TeXmacs, 01/24/2022

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