- From: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
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- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] new user's stupid questions
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:59:45 +0200
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 :
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>Hi,
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>at first i'd like to apologize for my poor english and the numerous
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>I am a new texmacs user and have been working with latex for a long time
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>now (although i am still not a pro). I have billions of questions, so i
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>will ask some now and search a little more for the others.
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>1°) I'd like to convert my documents which are full of macros (for
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>example $\R$ refers to \mathbb{R}, new environments as \begin{questions}
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>\item ...). How can I make Texmacs to convert my .tex files better than
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>what is done by the default settings.
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You cannot. The problem is that due to the complexity
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of LaTeX, importing more than the raw LaTeX syntax
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inside TeXmacs is very hard.
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The appropriate solution to this would be to revamp
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your files by means of programming your own translator,
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let's say using Perl, or something like that, whether
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it is before import into TeXmacs (you would then
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write Perl scripts which clean your LaTeX), or
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either after (you would then write Perl scripts
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which would clean your imported TeXmacs files).
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You should start doing this iteratively, namely,
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you import one of your .tex files, you see what
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the missing macros are, and what they should
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do, and either you implement a TeXmacs macro
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to implement their behaviour, or either you
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translate them in your Scheme Perl.
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>2°) I love the font used by Knuth for his book Concrete Mathematics (the
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>latex package is "concrete"-amsfonts i think ???). Is there an
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>equivalent under Texmacs (the concrete without serif fonts does not look
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>out as nice in maths equations or am i wrong ?)
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I don't know, but if this font is used by Knuth, it
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should be somehow available in LaTeX ; and usually,
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LaTeX fonts work with TeXmacs : therefore, this one
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should be available in TeXmacs, but I don't know exactly
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how...
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>3°) When i have to choose a menu, i have to click on the left button
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>anytime i change my menu's choice; i'd like to click once and then move
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>the mouse on the left or right and up or down. How can i configure
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>Texmacs in order to let it work the way i like ?
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You cannot. Revamping the widget set is a project underway.
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>4°) Is there an euqivalent to beamer and acrotex (with exerquizz) or
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>don't we need them ?
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Yes : one can use TeXmacs's presentation mode (View->Presentation mode).
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>5°) I'd like to have an enumeration style like 1. 1.1. 1.1.1 How do i
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>change it ?
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From inside the enumeration <enumerate-numeric*> is the
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appropriate tag (as far as I know, you need to type it,
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there is nothing in the menu for this).
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Best, Henri
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P.S. : Have a look at my tutorial about TeXmacs, it covers
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most simple things, and should help you to easily get
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started. Here is my TeXmacs page :
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