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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:22:21PM +0100, Parrenin Frédéric wrote:
> > Dear texmacs-users,
> > 
> > 
> > I don't find how to change quickly a section title to a subsection
> > title.
> 
> TeXmacs has a nifty and grossly under-advertised feature which is
> called 'structured variants' which does exactly that (and more, see at
> the end of the file circulate.scm for a list of all available
> variants).
> 
> Simply place the caret inside the section heading and press Ctrl-Tab
> (or Ctrl-Shift-Tab to circulate in reverse).
> 
> The only problem is that the most commonly window managers escape
> these keychords (generally to change workspaces). One solution is
> change your window manager configuration.
> 
> The other solution is put this code in your
> ~/.TeXmacs/progs/my-init-texmacs file:
> 
>     (exec-file "$TEXMACS_PATH/progs" "init-texmacs.scm")
> 
>     (set-keymap (always?)
>       ("C-space" (variant-circulate #t))
>       ("C-S-space" (variant-circulate #f)))
>
> To bind Ctrl-space and Ctrl-Shift-space (unbound by default).

The problem with this solution is that C-space is bound to
keyboard selections as well as to upward structured selections.
But you may use other currently unused keybindings,
like M-( and M-).

> > In a classical document editor ala M$-Word, you just have to put the
> > cursor inside your title paragraph and change the paragraph style from
> > title1 to title2 (or someting like that).
> > In texmacs, if I put the cursor inside the title and use Alt-2, the
> > first part of the title stays in a section title style and the second
> > part go into a new subsection title style.
> 
> You are right, TeXmacs should be able to do that too. Anyone willing
> to do a bit of Scheme hacking?

Yes, we have to think about this.

> > Even if I select the entire title, it is the same problem : a new
> > subsection is created after the section title.
> 
> This one would make sense too.

We'll think about that too.

> > Remark : Is there no way to copy raw text into TeXmacs ? You can just
> > copy in HTML, TeXmacs, Latex... formats !
> 
> You must use Verbatim format (well... maybe text would by more
> explicit...).

Hmmm.