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["Lamar, Robert" <address@hidden>]

Title: RE: [TeXmacs] Discrepancies between TeXmacs versions

Robert,

Thanks for your quick response.

Robert Ransom wrote:
> Robert Lamar wrote:
>> My research group has a TeXmacs plugin which was originally developed under Fedora 5 with TeXmacs 1.0.6.7.  After upgrading to Fedora 7, it ceased to work properly.  The main symptom is this: the plugin passes data back to TeXmacs which should look like this:
>>
>>   ... (tuple 12 "") (tuple 13 "") ...
>>
>> But under certain installations, TeXmacs **reports** [emphasis added] receiving data looking like this:
>>
>>   ... (tuple #{12}# "") (tuple #{13}# "") ...
>
> Is this the raw text sent to TeXmacs, or was this read as a Scheme datum (using the version of the Guile parser TeXmacs was linked to) and then displayed?  The TeXmacs binary provided by Fedora 7 is dynamically linked to the distribution's version of Guile, while a statically linked TeXmacs binary would include the version of Guile installed on the computer on which it was compiled, possibly with a different parser.

I agree with your added emphasis.  :c)  I am only reproducing the text that TeXmacs prints to stdio, not the data which passes from the plugin binary to TeXmacs.  The way to obtain that data is not obvious to me.

The Guile version issue sounds like a distinct possibility, but I must confess that I am just learning details of Scheme as I explore this issue.  Can you provide any hints on how I might explore this issue from here?

Thanks,
Rob