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["Paul Benham" <address@hidden>]

Thanks for the fast reply and helpful explanation. I now understand more 
about how texmacs is working - it is a good program.

Paul


> From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Entering Latex Commands
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:43:26 +0100
>
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 09:45, you wrote:
> > I now have the latest Texmacs and its looking very good indeed. Well 
> done.
> > A silly question. How do I enter latex commands. A simple example is,
> > \title{} - I know this can be done via article. I have looked at the 
> help
> > section, but I do not understand it! Sorry.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what is your problem, but I'll try to be helpful
> anyway.
>
> First you must know that TeXmacs is NOT a front-end for LaTeX, and that it
> does not really understand LaTeX commands.
>
> In the case of \title, it is actually a *function* defined with
> <assign|title|<func|name|<assign|thetitle|<value|name>>>>
> in the article stylesheet.
>
> When you type "\title[enter]", it will actually apply the <title> function
> with no parameter. To enter parameters in a function application you need 
> to
> press the [tab] key.
>
> Eg: \title[tab]My title[return]
>
> However, if you use the graphical interface to create the <title> command, 
> it
> will be created with the caret in the first parameter.
>
> Now, most LaTeX commands use *macros* (dynamic WYSIWYG components) and not
> functions, so they behave much more intuitively (eg. center). <title>,
> <author>, <address> and <maketitle> are some of the few exceptions left.
>
> Actually, it would make sense to redefine the maketitle function to use, by
> default, a macro and not a function in the LaTeX way.
>
> Hope this helps.


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