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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

Hi

Thanks Henri for the detailed (Cartesian reasoning) tutorial!

In fact, I almost get what I want now (after editing with emacs the 
source code for the style file).

But there are two subtle behaviours (bugs?) that still puzzle me:

1) If I use \bcite to invoke my macro and, by mistake, press return 
after typing some text as argument, the \bcite macro BREAKS FOREVER!!!
Other similar macros go on working, but \bcite complains

<unnamed port>:1:67: In procedure substring in expression (substring s 
7 ...):
<unnamed port>:1:67: Argument 2 out of range: 7

which is the same error I've been having all the time.

More precisely, all instances of \bcite invocation created later than 
the one with "return" in it are broken, but all the previous remain 
working.


2) I don't really know how to make TeXmacs re-read my style file. Even 
after restarting it wants to use a previous version of the package 
file. It's incredible: it doesn't want anymore my macro file, it sticks 
to a hand-edited one, but not quite the _current one_. It's like if it 
cached the file somewhat randomly.

When I load the package file back in TeXmacs, it refuses to save (no 
changes). If I make a tiny change in the package, then it accepts 
saving, and all changes are taken into account in my files.



If this is not enough to discourage a would-be package writer, the 
Remove package option from the menu

(which I wanted to use to refresh the package file TeXmacs is using 
accordingly to the contents of the one in the disk)

causes a segfault for a rather complex document I'm writing (but it 
works for small test files.


----Against pretty printing the source of TeXmacs styles (documents?)

Wouldn't it better to turn off the TeXmacs source pretty-printing 
mechanism (since it breaks more than it helps)?

It seems reasonable at least for style files, because of the new 'nice 
graphical' editing mode.

Perhaps the pretty printing could be heuristically applied to only a 
few tags. Anyway, is there anybody editing TeXmacs files by hand?, is 
there any reason to keep source pretty-printing?

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'Alvaro.