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[Álvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

Hello all, 

I write just to introduce myself. I hope I will be able to help with 
something, but I'll try to get to know texmacs better before raising my hand.

My name is Álvaro Tejero Cantero. I am currently studying physics (roughly 
maîtrise level) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). I have 
studied for one year in Paris (Paris VI -- Jussieu). 

I am very interested in the broadcasting of free (in the sense we all already 
know) scientific content. At the end of my stay in Paris I conceived a 
project which I have been running now for two years with some help from 
friends at faculty. It consists in taking notes with a laptop in the 
classroom and afterwards processing, enhancing, completing them to be 
published. I am currently doing this with LyX.

The documents (a list of the currently nearly-finished ones goes at the end) 
contain figures, references, etc. I am now involved in getting more people to 
do this, and simultaneously in setting up a web presence for all this (we 
used to distribute the documents through a fairly simple page but got tired 
of the uploading burden and are now preparing a database powered website. I 
expect this to take off mid march).

I am now using LyX but are absolutely amazed by TeXmacs. As a community 
member I deeply, very deeply, thank you your effort. I am astonished by the 
capabilities and ambitions of TeXmacs. And I am here because I believe in 
some of the design choices behind it (I have read a paper by Joris explaining 
the wysiwig-point-of-view, I don't know if it is recent).

I trust TeXmacs. What I can provide right know is some efficiency 
considerations based on my day-to-day experience taking notes of fairly 
technical character in real time. I think I can also make some corrections to 
the spanish translation. I know C++ but certainly not at the required level 
for making contributions. I also know python. 
I hope also to make publicity to the good ideas behind LyX. And one day, 
perhaps I will be able to start writing these long and complicated documents 
in TeXmacs. Meanwhile, I can test TeXmacs with my mother's documents (around 
four books on geography or history with very few fancy elements. Long, but 
simple), lab reports and such.

I am very sorry for having been so long, but, as Voltaire once said, I didn't 
have the time to write something shorter :).

Greets to all

--
álvaro tejero cantero
alqua.com, la red en estudio


List of documents (the titles have been translated from spanish).
The corresponding subjects span 60 or 45h.
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Advanced Differential Geometry (manifolds, tensors, forms, riemmannian 
geometry).

Atmospheric radiation (a 4th year course)

**Group theory (Lie groups and Lie algebras).

*Thermodynamics (a 2nd year course)

*Classical mechanics (a fairly short first analytical mechanics course)

**Theoretical mechanics (Hamilton equations, Navier--Stokes equation, Poisson 
brackets...)

*Quantum physics (a first --quantization rules, historical account, hydrogen 
atom, 1D and 3D potentials--)

**Solid state physics (very preliminary. I'm not doing this one.)

Quantum physics (a second course -- electromagnetic transitions, 
multielectronic atoms, identical particles, statistical quantum mechanics 
overview...).

Ordinary differential equations (a first course, mainly operational: systems 
of linear equations)

Electromagnetic optics (a standard course not going into too much microscopic 
reasoning and adressing interference, polarization and diffraction).

Those without asterisks are in publishable state, those preceded by one 
asterisk would need some polishing and those with two asterisks are currently 
in progress.