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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Bas Spitters wrote:

> Dear users,
> 
> I just had a first look at TeXmacs. It looks very beautiful.
> 
> There are some simple things I have not  figured out yet.
> 
> How can I get display math? \[ \] gives me some kind of code-language.
> I found the equation environment but that seems to be something different. 
> At 
> least, it is in TeX.
> 
> In general, the behaviour of the \   puzzles me. When I type \int in math I 
> would expect to get an integral, but I get into hybrid mode. What is this?
> I probably missed it in the documentation. Can anyone give me a hint?
> 
> How do I stop an environment? I can start a theorem environment for 
> instance, 
> but I seem to be unable to stop it.

First of all, remind that TeXmacs is *not* a frontend to TeX/LaTeX.

You may activate a "\"-command by pressing RETURN.

Please look at http://www.texmacs.org/Tutorial
for more information for beginners.

Best wishes, Joris