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Hi.

I am a newbie to TeXmacs, but i am trying to use it in the most of my
documents. At this moment I am writing my thesis and I want to make it
using primary TeXmas (eventually I use other package for image or data
manipulation, but all the writing is made in TeXmacs).

There is a Institute in my country which establish the standards for
thesis presentation, so I want to use TeXmacs Styles for that standards,
but I dont undertand Styles very well. I was trying modifiying a
pre-existent sytle and I get some minor things but I think that major
changes are still dificult to me. I need to familiarize with the TeXmacs
grammar for styles, but because of my thesis I have no enougth time to
get this knowledge now, so I was thinking that may be someone with more
experience can help me with that. I can help with other task no so
time-learning consuming (like translations) or documenting the way that
this someone help me creating new styles for my thesis. Because I am a
newbie a think that this documentation would be very helpfull for
another newbies trying their styles. I think that this documentation can
be F.A.Q/tutorial oriented, something like:

Newbie: I want to define a Introduction Style for my thesis/book/article
and I want this style makes that the "introduction" enviroment looks in
this way:


  Page Border 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                               ^                                      
                                                    |
|                               |                                      
                                                    
|                               |                                      
                                                                       
             |
|                            (5 cm)                                    
                                              |
|                               |                                      
                                                    |                  
                                                   
|                               |                                      
                                                    |
|-------(center of page)--INTRODUCTION--(center of page)----|
|                               |                                      
                                                    |
|                               |                                      
                                                   |
|                         (Double space)                               
                                   |
|                               |                                      
                                                  |
|<--(2 cm)--Body of text for Introduction (bla,bla bla,--(2 cm)-->|
|                      (bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla bla, bla, bla     
                          |
|                      (bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla bla, bla, bla     
                           |
|                               :                                      
                                                   |
|                               :                                      
                                                   |
|--------(center of page)--page numeral--(center of page)---------|
|                               |                                      
                                                   |
|                               |                                      
                                                   |
|                            (3 cm)                                    
                                            |
|                               |                                      
                                                   |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 Page Border

The page numeral an the bottom of page is in roman numerals, i.e. i, ii,
iv, and so on. How can I do it?

Guru: (Here comes the expert's answer).

I think that a tuturial style with specific examples can help a lot a
newbies and then they can extrapolate the answer to a more specific task
or a different one.

At this moment I propose this question to start the tutofaq:

Newbie (me :-) ): I want to make a table for a survey that looks in this
way:

Mark in the right with a X the proper option for every question :

      |---------------------------------|
      |                                    | Options   |
      | Questions                |-----------|
      |                                    | Yes | No  |
      |----------------------------------|
      |Item1 + question1 text  |     |     |
      |----------------------------------|
      |Item2 + question2 text  |     |     |
      |----------------------------------|

Please help me. Thanks a lot.

Guru: (here comes your part, I will be waiting ;-) ).

Tnx a lot and keep the good work.

Cheers,

Offray Vladimir