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[Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden>]

Hello,

Well, I'm new to TeXmacs and have been reading the documentation to try and get a handle on the program for writing my thesis and I have a couple of questions. My first question is: Is there any documentation that explicitly explains how to make changes to documents and doesn't just tell you what all the commands are? Meaning, I've used TeX briefly and this documentation explicitly explains and gives examples of how to change different aspects of your document. For instance in TeX the package 'fancyhdr' is very popular for controlling headers and footers and it is explained explicitly that to change the headers or footers in your document you insert (into your preamble):

    \usepackage{fancyhdr}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \rhead{\thepage}     This command gives you the current page number in the right header
    \cfoot{}    This command eliminates anything in the center foot position

I am not seeing instruction on how to modify the header of TeXmacs documents. The user manual only lists things like: odd-page-header :=, or <set-header|> from the Insert-Permanent-Header menu, or other commands. However, I don't know what to enter into these fields to modify the header or where in the document to enter these commands. 

So, is there any documentation that explains this a little more clearly? Or maybe a two-line reply will clear this all up for me. I'm not trying to be rude or say the documentation is bad or anything I'm just confused and trying to understand how the program works because I think that it will be a very good program to write my thesis in (much much better than Microsoft Word).

What I need is the page number to be displayed in the right header on every page, with nothing else in the header or footer, and the preliminary pages to be numbered i, ii, iii and the remaining pages to be numbered 1, 2, 3 with a 12pt header at 0.75in from the top. Also, it would be nice if I could capitalize the c, f, and t in the toc, lof, and lot. So rather than "Table of contents" it is "Table of Contents". I am using the article document style.

Thanks for any help in advance!

Regards,
Bob