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[Nachiketa Sahoo <address@hidden>]

Thanks, that was instructive.

Nachi

On 7/27/05, Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:59:37PM -0400, Nachiketa Sahoo wrote:
> > How do I map a keyboard shortcut for export to pdf? To the default
> > file name is fine.
> 
> As a general rule, I would suggest to first read the documentation about
> keyboard mappings:
> 
>         Help -> Manual -> Customizing TeXmacs
>         Help -> Scheme extensions -> Overview of the scheme extension 
> language
> 
> Then, just search for the place in the scheme files where the menu with
> the Pdf export is defined :
> 
> ==============================
> (menu-bind save-menu
>   ("Save buffer" (save-buffer))
>   ("Save buffer as" (choose-file save-buffer "Save TeXmacs file" "texmacs"))
>   ---
>   (promise (export-menu-promise #t))
>   ---
>   ("Export as#Pdf" (choose-file print-to-file "Save pdf file" "pdf"))
>   ("Export as#PostScript"
>    (choose-file print-to-file "Save postscript file" "postscript")))
> ==============================
> 
> There, you can see the command which you should use:
> 
>         (choose-file print-to-file "Save pdf file" "pdf")
> 
> So, you should put a command like
> 
>         (kbd-map
>           ("xxx" (choose-file print-to-file "Save pdf file" "pdf")))
> 
> somewhere in your Scheme initialization file.
> 
> Best wishes, Joris
>