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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Joseph Coffey wrote:
> What is the proper way to export a TeXmacs document which contains macros?
>
>     * First I tried doing it naively-just pressing export and letting it
>       go. However this causes the latex file to ask for macros.sty (if
>       this is the name of the corresponding macro file).

That certainly does not work and probably shouldn't work.

>     * Then I tried exporting the macro file as well. This time it gets
>       upset that there are two document classes (source and article),
>       and after complaining about a variety of other problems generates
>       only 1 page dvi file.

Probably the macros should be exported as a .cls file and something
special needs to be done. If a LaTeX hacker can assist us what would
be the best thing to do and where to put generated .cls files...

>     * Finally I tried just pasting in the exported macros. This works
>       ok, except that the macros which were written "with math" do not
>       export properly. (at least I believe this is the source of my
>       woes).  It seems to me that the proper export of
>           o <assign|db|<macro|<with|mode|math|blah blah>>>>
>           o should be:\newcommand{\db}{\ensuremath{blah blah} not
>           o \newcommand{\db}{${blah blah}$}
>
> The present method causes a large number of error messages, because the
> way TeXmacs treats the macros when I edit is like an ensure math (I
> think).  Most of the error messages generated are not serious, however
> the results are unpredictable, and not terrible easy to fix up.

I know; this actually is the main problem when exporting macros.
I personally put all my mathematical macro definitions inside
math mode and that usually does the trick. It does not check
whether you are really in math mode during the LaTeX-phase though,
but that does not really bother me.

Best wishes, Joris