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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> I want to thank all the people involved in TeXmacs. I am using It as my
> primary text editor for almost all my works, specially on my thesis
> writing. I want to say thanks particulary to David Allouche, who help me
> with the survey style using cell span, and writing a helpful
> survey-howto. 

Thanks for your nice reaction.

> As I said previously, I am not a programmer, but I can help with
> documentation, localization and translation. I just read and probe the
> suervey-howto (because now is time to put my thesis pretty :) ) and I
> made some minor orthographical corrections (just 2 wrong words) and make
> the translation in spanish, with a minor change about creating the "Yes"
> and "No" options with the same column size (in the english survey-howto
> the difference of size is not noted, but in spanish the diference is
> noted when I change the english word "options" for the spanish
> "opciones", making that the "Si" column gets bigger).
> 
> I send as attachments the corrected english survey-howto and the spanish
> "encuesta-como" TeXmacs documents.
> 
> Is a minor contrib, but Is my way to say thanks. I hope I can help more
> in the future.

Thank you. I will let the other Spanish speaking contributors take a look
and include it as soon as they say so. Please contact Álvaro Tejero 
Cantero in the CC. It would nice if he could coordinate the Spanish
translation project (or Pablo if Alvaro prefers so).

> Now I want to make the thesis style in TeXmacs acording with the local
> rules for thesis documentation.
> 
> The rules are pretty simple:
> 
> * Every section starts in a new page (5 cm of top border page).
> * Each section and subsection titles are in Caps.
> * The paragraphs start all aligned to the left of the page (like in the
> help style).
> 
> Any advice, point, or help about it will be really apreciate. As always,
> until now I can help with localizations and spreading the word in the
> local universitary virtual comunities about this new style for local
> thesis writing. (this will be very helpful because, not even one of
> commun word processor has a template about the rules for thesis acording
> the the standards of my country).

I will let other users try to answer this question :^)
but don't hesisitate to ask it again if that takes too long...