- From: Enrique Perez-Terron <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Tables: Double escape prefix for alt modifier does not work
- Date: 01 May 2003 15:38:59 +0200
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On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 23:23, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
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Hello,
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I am using TeXmacs-1.0.1.8, and am having trouble creating a table.
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I have found the "Tabular material" page in the manual, saying that I
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can create a new column to the right of the cursor position by pressing
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A-right.
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On my system it appears that the Alt key is the Meta modifier.
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In the "Getting started" page of the manual I read that I can use Escape
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twice as a prefix instead of the Alt key. But, when I press Escape the
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second time, it does not seem to have any effect.
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(By the way, the Getting started page also says "For instance,
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<key|escape w> is equivalent to <key|A-w>." I guess it should be
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"equivalent to M-w".)
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I create the table using the menu Insert->Table->Big table, and the a
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blue outline appears around a full-width area with the cursor centered
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in a first row, and the text "Table 1" in boldface in a second row.
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The status line says "generic text roman 10" and "big-table start".
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I want the upper left square of the table to contain a zero, so I press
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zero, and the status bar says "big-table 0".
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Then I press Escape and the status bar says "Execute a TeXmacs command"
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and "M-" appears in the right hand corner.
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The second time I press Escape nothing seems to happen. The status bar
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still has "Execute a TeXmacs command" and "M-".
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Then I press the right arrow key, and the status bar reverts to "generic
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text roman 10" and "big-table 0".
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Is there any other way of creating tables?
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Regards,
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Enrique Perez-Terron
I found the solution myself. It turns out that using the menu
Insert->Table->Big table does not insert a table. It only inserts some
kind of framework for keeping a caption below the table that still has
to be created using one of the four table types below the divider in the
menu.
I wish the manual had said something about that.
Regards,
Enrique Pérez-Terrón
- Re: Tables: Double escape prefix for alt modifier does not work, Enrique Perez-Terron, 05/01/2003
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