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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> > > Hello all, I am unable to find anything in the documentation as to the
> > > appropriate line to put in the my-init-texmacs.scm file so that a
> > > TeXmacs session starts with varsession enabled. 
> > >
> > >      
> > You currently cannot, because the set of packages you
> > use is a property of the document. 
> >    
>
> That explains it, thanks for the info. I was asking since I am hoping
> using TeXmacs with Maxima as the tool of choice in various of our math
> courses next year and I would have liked to preset this so students
> would have it as the default look. Oh well, the default colouration is
> more than adequate.
>
>  
You can still do it by preparing a void document which uses the 
particular package
you want, and tell your students that they must start from this void 
document. And
after this, if the students want to do their own documents, explain them 
how to do it.

As far as documentation is concerned, there are some tutorials available :

The official TeXmacs tutorial :
[[
http://www.texmacs.org/Tutorial/
]]

TeXmacs in 60 mn :
[[
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html
]]

and also a (work in progress & a little bit more technical) tutorial I 
wrote myself :
[[
http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/
]]

Finally, there is the TeXmacs help, available in the Help menu (if your 
computer is online, you
can download all the help doing Help/Online help/Update from web).  This 
help is perhaps also
included in the tarball you downloaded with Fink. Otherwise, the help 
files are in the CVS at :
[[
http://www.texmacs.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/doc/
]]

And last but not least, you can find some examples of real mathematical 
papers written using
TeXmacs in :
[[
http://www.texmacs.org/Examples/
]]

Best, Henri