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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Hi everybody,

I've been using TeXmacs instead of LaTeX happily for several years now
for projects of my own for which a final PDF is required. I'm now
looking at totally converting, and wanted to ask about experiences
with what I see as the two big hurdles I'll have to overcome:

1) Version control and support for collaboration --- it is my
   impression that there are plans to make TeXmacs connect well to
   some sort of version control system, but that for the moment, one
   simply uses CVS or SVS or something to keep versions of the .tm
   files.

   My experience with LaTeX is that when one does this as part of a
   group of several people, there are often "CVS conflicts" in which
   CVS leaves >>> and <<< marks in the .tex file in ways that prevent
   LaTeX from processing it until one goes in with emacs/vi and
   resolves the conflicts in terms of the LaTeX source.

   Is it necessary to go into the .tm file with emacs/vi and resolve
   conflicts there? How bad would this be for folks who are not
   steeped in the .tm format? What does TeXmacs do when it reads an
   invalid file? Are there other things I should know about or be
   asking about?

2) Export to LaTeX and use of other style files --- a few tests
   suggest that the "export to LaTeX" feature works quite well. How
   hard it is to then integrate one's work with the LaTeX ".sty" file,
   when one is communicating with a journal or conference that
   requires LaTeX source that conforms to their style? (Too bad they
   don't accept texmacs source, but at least they don't require .doc
   format!).

Thanks for any advice,
                        Dave Wonnacott