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[Javier Arántegui Jiménez <address@hidden>]

Hello,

El Martes, 21 de Octubre de 2003 12:24, Enrique Perez-Terron escribió:

> Joris van der Hoeven answered this one just a few days ago, M-/ after
> the space.

:-( I'm totally ashamed. I might check the archives of the list but I didn't. 


> However, I think your second
> question merits some comments from those who know something.  Perhaps
> you will get some hints if you offer to improve the help docs on this
> point, even if only with a few examples, it would probably be very
> useful.

I will try to do some examples if I am able to understand how the style files 
work. It requires more knowledge of TeXmacs than I want to know.

Probably the 3 things I miss more of TeXmacs are:

1. A user guide.
2. Good export to pdf (and, sometimes but not frequently, to html)
3. A MS Windows port (I don't use Windows much but my students do)


Here it's my suggestion of Table of contents of a minimal user guide:

1. Introduction
        Reasons to use TeXmacs
        ¿Emacs + LaTex = TeXmacs?
2. Setup
        Linux: RPM
        Mac OS X: Fink
        Other tools: Ghostscript, Maxima, Octave, Xfig,...
3. First 30 minutes with TeXmacs
        Description of the interface
        ¿TeXmacs is WYSIWYG or WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean)?
        Sections and enviroments.
        Save a document
        Printing and exporting
4. A more complex document
        Header and footer
        Special characters
        Fonts and paragraphs
5. Equations
        Edition of equations
        Numering equations and cross references
6. Tables
        How create a table?
        Edition
7. Graphics
        Insertion and viculation of graphics
        Load image dialog
8. TeXmacs as an interface
        Maxima
        Octave
        Gnuplot
9. Advanced TeXmacs
        Master document
        Folds and switches
        Personal style files
        Macros, Scheme

This is just the outline of the book I'd like to read about TeXmacs. 
Obviously 
it's biased to my needs. I don't know if there is any plan to write this kind 
of documentation. Of course, there is a lot of information in the help files 
but sometimes is quite cryptic.

I try to add interesting comments to this list but I have two big barriers: 
1) 
My knowledge of TeXmacs is quite limited and 2) my mastery of English is 
ridiculous :-(  I'm sorry if I'm increasing the noise level of the list.

Thank you,

Javier