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Thank you for your quick answer.

For the enumeration, i thought i could change some style and the
numbering (as it is proposed for the theorme environment).

I will look at the solutions you told me.

Bye

Le vendredi 30 juin 2006 à 16:56 +0200, Henri Lesourd a écrit :
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >at first i'd like to apologize for my poor english and the numerous
> >errors you will read ...
> >
> >I am a new texmacs user and have been working with latex for a long time
> >now (although i am still not a pro). I have billions of questions, so i
> >will ask some now and search a little more for the others.
> >
> >1°) I'd like to convert my documents which are full of macros (for
> >example $\R$ refers to \mathbb{R}, new environments as \begin{questions}
> >\item ...). How can I make Texmacs to convert my .tex files better than
> >what is done by the default settings.
> >
> >  
> >
> You cannot. The problem is that due to the complexity
> of LaTeX, importing more than the raw LaTeX syntax
> inside TeXmacs is very hard.
> 
> The appropriate solution to this would be to revamp
> your files by means of programming your own translator,
> let's say using Perl, or something like that, whether
> it is before import into TeXmacs (you would then
> write Perl scripts which clean your LaTeX), or
> either after (you would then write Perl scripts
> which would clean your imported TeXmacs files).
> 
> You should start doing this iteratively, namely,
> you import one of your .tex files, you see what
> the missing macros are, and what they should
> do, and either you implement a TeXmacs macro
> to implement their behaviour, or either you
> translate them in your Scheme Perl.
> 
> 
> >2°) I love the font used by Knuth for his book Concrete Mathematics (the
> >latex package is "concrete"-amsfonts i think ???). Is there an
> >equivalent under Texmacs (the concrete without serif fonts does not look
> >out as nice in maths equations or am i wrong ?)
> >
> >  
> >
> I don't know, but if this font is used by Knuth, it
> should be somehow available in LaTeX ; and usually,
> LaTeX fonts work with TeXmacs : therefore, this one
> should be available in TeXmacs, but I don't know exactly
> how...
> 
> 
> >3°) When i have to choose a menu, i have to click on the left button
> >anytime i change my menu's choice; i'd like to click once and then move
> >the mouse on the left or right and up or down. How can i configure
> >Texmacs in order to let it work the way i like ?
> >
> >  
> >
> You cannot. Revamping the widget set is a project underway.
> 
> 
> >4°) Is there an euqivalent to beamer and acrotex (with exerquizz) or
> >don't we need them ?
> >
> >  
> >
> Yes : one can use TeXmacs's presentation mode (View->Presentation mode).
> 
> 
> >5°) I'd like to have an enumeration style like 1. 1.1. 1.1.1 How do i
> >change it ?
> >
> >  
> >
>  From inside the enumeration <enumerate-numeric*> is the
> appropriate tag (as far as I know, you need to type it,
> there is nothing in the menu for this).
> 
> 
> Best, Henri
> 
> 
> P.S. : Have a look at my tutorial about TeXmacs, it covers
>   most simple things, and should help you to easily get
>   started. Here is my TeXmacs page :
>   [[
>      http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/
>   ]]
>