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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Javier Arántegui wrote:
> El Jueves, 18 de Noviembre de 2004 10:02, Joris van der Hoeven escribió:
> > In recent versions of TeXmacs, we directly pass the arguments as trees,
> > so you should convert them to strings using tree->string.
> > However, there is a bug with this, since the > in tree->string
> > is currently rewritten as <gtr>. I hope to take a look at this soon.
> > You may write a function (define (f t) (string-length (tree->string t)))
> > and use "f".
>
> Thank you very much. This was just driving me crazy. I thought that I was
> doing something wrong but I was unable to find the problem.
>
> I understand that I must define the function t in my-init-texmacs.scm. Then 
> I
> can use it in the text using extern. Did I get it correctly? [I don't thing
> so because I tried it and it didn't work]

The function "f", not "t". Also, in the preferences, you should set
your security so as to accept all scripts. Alternatively, you may define
"f" to be secure using tm-define and the (:secure #t) option
(search for mouse-fold in the sources for an example).