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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> I have also the wish of generating nice looking pdf type1 documents from
> original sources on TeXmacs. The way i used was exporting to LaTeX (from
> the menu) and then used pdflatex as you. To get a document like I wanted
> I had to make some changes manually, may be you can consider that
> changes too:

Yes; notice that this issue has been discussed several times before.
What we really need is a volunteer to write a TeXmacs -> Pdf converter.
This should take a few days or at most one week of work,
by adapting the TeXmacs -> Postscript converter.

> The line break command changes on the LaTeX document (use "//" instead
> of the generated LaTeX command by TeXmacs "/")

You probably want to use "M-return".
In the next version I have reincluded this in the "Insert -> Break" menu.

> You need change all the eps or ps figures on the document for other
> documents because pdflatec can't generate a proper pdf from a LaTeX
> document containing eps/ps embedded figures. I changed the eps/ps for
> png files (using gimp) and then I changed the reference for the eps
> figure using the new png created figure. May be you'll need a
> "\scalebox{}" argument in the LaTeX file applied to the figure to get a
> figure with a nice look and displayed all inside the page (in my
> document if  didnt apply that argument most of figures were with some
> part out of the page).
> 
> I still have problems trying to transport some other properties from
> TeXmacs to the LaTeX file before pdflatex conversion specially with
> tables, like background color of a cell or cell spanning. I'm also a
> totally new to LaTeX so I have not clue about that and the beginer book
> intro that I got about that doesnt have much info about tables.
> 
> Please if someone can help me about tables properties on LaTeX I would
> really apreciate it.

You are now talking about improving the TeXmacs -> LaTeX converter,
which is an interesting question, but which should be seen as
another matter as Pdf generation. The programs which generate LaTeX
are in "progs/convert/tmtex". You may try to improve them.

With a bit of study, you should be able to figure out how
to scale postscript graphics and how to improve border properties
in tables. However, background colors of cells and cells with
a non-trivial vertical span will be more problematic,
since these features are not present in TeX/LaTeX...