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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:30:58PM +0100, jose ernie lope wrote:
> 
> hello. thanks for the responses to my queries.
> i was wondering if there is some elementary article on how counters are 
> manipulated and how they are displayed.

No, there is not. In texmacs, counters are regular variables, which are
incremented and converted as needed. The best resource a.t.m. is the
texmacs style files. Yes, that's not very friendly.

> (this is in relation to one of 
> my questions.) latex has a multi-purpose list environment and it is 
> pretty flexible -- one can number lists like i.), ii.), ... or [a], [b], 
> [c],... etc.

You _can_ do this in texmacs. But not very easily. You'd have to define
your own custom list environment in a personal package file (.ts). Check
std-list.ts to see the definition of the standard enumerate
environments. The counting is down by the internal "item" macro.

Note: insert a space a space after the definitions which read
"<error|compound|newenumerate>" and "<error|compound|newitemize>" to
display the actualy definition. A display bug was introduced in the file
format transition late in 1.0.2.n series.

> i would also like to tweak the default amount of space that the program 
> adds between two factors in a product. i personally feel that the space 
> should be a bit smaller and should definitely not be 'stretchable'. any 
> hints?

No way to do this in a flexible and portable way at the moment. But you
can modify the way _your_ texmacs installation will typeset mathematics
by modifying the texmath.syx file.

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