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[Nicolas Ratier <address@hidden>]

I propose a plugins to clone Scientific Word icons
from TeXmacs. The plugin is far to be finished, but
it can be usefull from now. As you will see if you
use it ... Of course any help to finish it is welcome.
(See problems listed below)

For the moment texmacs menus and icons are not full
custumizable, the main set of icon and menu can only
be modified, but we can not recreate a full new one.
By exemple make texmacs icon exacly look like Maple
program icons when we are inside a Maple session.

So my plugins installation is not fully satisfactory
because I use "User provided icons" to set sciword
icons. It will be changed as soon as the texmacs
way to manage icon and menu will be improved.

Nicolas

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Installation:
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Download sciword.tar.gz at www.lpmo.edu/~ratier
Decompress it in ~/.TeXmacs/plugins
Copy all the xpm icons
  from ~/.TeXmacs/plugins/sciword/pixmaps
  to   ~/.TeXmacs/misc/pixmaps
In TeXmacs main menu: View -> User provided icons

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How to help:
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Problem 1:
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The following symbol from package "amssymb"
doesn't exist in teXmacs. They appear in
sciword icon as name.

Solution1:
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Include these symbols in teXmacs !! (Please Joris ...)

$\Join$
$\risingdotseq$
$\varpropto$
$\bowtie$
$\fallingdotseq$
$\vartriangle$
$\smallsmile$
$\smallfrown$
$\bigstar$
$\doteq$

$\nshortmid$
$\ntrianglerighteq$
$\ntrianglelefteq$

$\leadsto$
$\dashrightarrow$
$\dashleftarrow$

$\blacktriangle$
$\diagup$
$\Vert$
$\diagdown$
$\smallint$
$\surd$

Problem2:
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Custumize the scheme command (symbol "<xxx>") so that it write directly
the mathematical symbol <xxx> in math mode and an equation $<xxx>$ in
text mode. This behavior correspond to the one of Scientific Word.

Problem3:
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What is the command to write accentuated letter from scheme file? Send me a
example and I can complete the menu : "Latin-1" and "Latin Extended-A".
(see directory Sciword Screenshot to see what all these menus look like)

Problem4:
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How to send scheme command to write fraction, radical, superscript,
subscript, parentheses, square brackets, sum, integral ?
I known the respective commands are : (make-fraction)
(make-sqrt) (make-script #f #t) (make-script #t #t) ...
but I don't succeed to make them work inside my "init-sciword.scm"
I have the same problem with (make 'eqnaarray*).

Problem5:
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How to make a vertical icon menu like the one of Sciword?

Problem6 (Difficult):
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Make the GUI relative to the icons "Operators", "Brackets",
"Matrix", "Math Name", "Space", "Binomial", "Label", "Decoration".
(see directory Sciword Screenshot to see what all these GUI look like)
May be, we should wait for a Qt version of TeXmacs to make them ...