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[Stéphane Payrard <address@hidden>]

On (15/10/02 20:13), Michèle Garoche wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:13:40 +0200
> Subject: Re: Changing links in online documentation
> From: Michèle Garoche <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> 
> 
> Le mardi, 15 oct 2002, à 18:56 Europe/Paris, Joris van der Hoeven a 
> écrit :
> 
> >Put your cursor behind the hyperlink, press backspace,
> >modify the information, and press return while inside
> >the disactivated hyperlink.
> 
> Better than mode preamble. Thanks.
> 
> It would be helpful to integrate a page on how to make changes like 
> this one in an already written texmacs document in the online 
> documentation?

Certainly I crave for that.  As an end user I have trouble to
understand TeXmacs and I am tired to be able to read code that I would
otherwise not want to focus into, just to RTFS to get what happens.

Example:

I get hyperlink from the menu, but I can't get it by typing
\hyperlink. If I type \dfn, I get a macro for typing a definition but
unlike hyperlink, backspace does not get me into inactive mode.
Probably this is explained by the fact that on is a built-in an the
other a macro, but really as a user I don't care. I just see an
inconsistant behavior.

Like always with TeXmacs and unlike other tools, I feel a tremoundous
power but it always eludes me. I have never had the patience of
adventure games and TeXmacs should not be one. I crave for a
self-introspective tool.  I understand it is in the eyes of Joris, I
just wish it could be in the hands of anyone.

After such a long time, I still feel I don't have enough global
understanding to contribute good documentation or to contribute
good enhancements like hybrid abbrevs for example.

--
 stef

> 
> Michèle