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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> How can I define some paper type as default?
> 
> I see a menu entry: Edit -> Preferences -> Printer -> Paper type...
> but I'm not sure what to type here. I've tried "letter", "carta", "Carta",
> but nothing seems to work. When restarting texmacs, the default paper type
> still is "A4".

This is a bug; it has been corrected for the next version.

> Wouldn't it be better a submenu showing only the acceptable entries?

Yes; done for the next version.

> Some more questions:
> 
> I've have just discovered the command "\hrule", almost by accident (looking
> at the source from an imported tex file). Some time ago I recall having
> looked in the menus for this feature, without luck. So this makes me wonder
> if there's some place to look for a complete list of macros available in
> texmacs?

Well, this is due to the lack of people who are willing to write
documentation about style files and packages. You find the sources of
all TeXmacs macros and functions in the directories

        $TEXMACS_PATH/styles
        $TEXMACS_PATH/packages

so you can take a look there in order to have a complete list
(with the exception of the TeXmacs primitives of course) and
have an idea about their functionality.

Of course, anyone who would be willing to write detailed documentation
about the TeXmacs DTD's and style files is welcome...

> Another one: Selecting text from another program and then pasting it to 
> texmacs apparently eliminates carriage returns. This makes difficult to 
> paste source code, for example, or any preformated text.

You should select another copy&paste format then
(Tools -> Selections -> Import/Export).

> Finally, why isn't possible to resize the "load file" window?. Sometimes I 
> enlarge vertically such windows, as it's easy to find the file you'r 
> looking 
> for.

Done for the next version.