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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote:
> Nice, What I couldn't find was where is the specs for texmacs trees.
> What's their syntax? I think I'll check the plugins code directly to see
> if I find anything about that.

Take a look at (the not yet complete)

        Help -> Manual -> Reference guide for the TeXmacs primitives

By the way, if you want to know how to represent a piece of
text in scheme, simply type it in TeXmacs, do

        Edit -> Copy to -> Scheme

and paste it wherever you want.

> > > Same thing for inputting data into my CAS. Texmacs could send texmacs
> > > trees directly to me so that I could parse them into my CAS objects.
> >
> > We already do provide some "flattening facilities" (see the other
> > plug-ins and Help -> Interfacing -> Mathematical and customized output).
> > A student is also working on an integrated parser/pretty-printing tool
> > written in Scheme. If you have some free time, then you might be
> > interested in helping him.
>
> I don't have much time on my hands now since I'm about to deliver a MSc
> report but I'll check it out afterwards. I can maybe give him a hand. Do
> you have his contact?

Yes, I'll get you in contact with him as soon as you want to.

> > Carefully read the whole section Help -> Interfacing. Two third of it
> > is bound to be interesting for you. You may send TeXmacs trees using
> > the "scheme" format. I also recommend you to take a look what other
> > plug-ins do.
>
> I really read the whole section, however, not carefully. From what I
> recall, there's not much about the scheme format but I'll check it out
> again.

I think that it is worth it to spend a few hours reading
the whole chapter. I put significant effort into writing
something simple with good examples.