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[Christopher Lee <address@hidden>]

>>>>> "Joris" == Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:

    Joris> I think that what you really want is some kind of "list"
    Joris> environment, not a table-like one....
           <snip>


Thanks for the help Joris!  I have three questions/followups:


One: Where are the language primitives defined? 
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I looked at the styles yesterday: I'm having problems understanding
the style language.  I've read through all the documentation---but
over an extended period of time---so it may be that I simply haven't
integrated it together yet.

I can narrow down the problem somewhat: when I look at lists.ts, I can
see that I have a series of assignments, functions and macros. For
example,

  <assign|thetag|<with|mode|math|\<bullet\>>>

Might be translated as:

 thetag = \<bullet\>  in the environment where mode=math

Ok, that makes sense, but where is '<bullet>' defined? Is there a
place where environment variables and their meanings are listed?
I feel like I'm reading a language where I know the grammar, but have
no vocabulary for nouns and verbs.


Two: How can I make the code more readable?
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Code like,

  <assign|itemize|<macro|body|<surround|<format|no page break
  before>|<vspace|0.5fn><format|no indentation after>|<with|left
  margin|<plus|<value|left margin>|3fn>|item|<macro|<vspace*|0.5fn><with|firs\
  t indentation|-1.5fn|<format|enable first
  indentation>><resize|<apply|thetag> |||r]1.5fn|>>|<arg|body>>>>>


...is difficult for me to follow.  Do you have settings in texmacs
that can help to make it look more readable?  (The colors do help.)


Just a notion, but it seems it would be much easier to read this code
if I could simply write the style in something more lisp-like. White
space could be used for revealing program structure.


  (assign 'itemize
         (macro '(body)
                 (surround ...
                           )
                                 )
                 )


Note, I'm not an expert lisp user, but I can always find my way
through it with help from emacs.  The ability to get documentation via
docstrings and interactive help is invaluable.

Three:  gencc and C++ coding techniques
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Is there a way to use the standard templates library in texmacs source
code?  While working on the pipes.gen.cc code, I tried using some STL
functions and gencc didn't like it.  Is there a way to get access to
them?


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I apologise if all these questions/design issues have already been
hashed out.  Thanks again.

-chris