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["Sam Liddicott" <address@hidden>]

 And yet more feedback:

if LANG=en_GB.utf8, such that gcc errors use utf-8 characters (like the 
freaky back-quote marks), then if gcc is run under a shell session in 
texmacs, the utf-8 characters are not properly interpreted.

I suppose texmacs should look at LANG before it invokes the shell to get 
the default encoding.

I also had a long footnote:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=59C09E9F262514468B1F2E022E50FBA3BBDC4C%40naeaphilez05v.nadsusea.nads.navy.mil


The footnote was hyphenated in the word message, and the part before the 
hyphenation was right-aligned which looked stupid. If the line must be 
broken early I think left-alignment should be kept. (Never mind that 
hyphenating a URL is probably always the wrong thing to do and maybe I 
should have marked it so it would not be hyphenated).


I find it confusing that ctrl-home may or may not go to the top of the 
document depending what the current environment is.


Here is my comparison with Lyx - no exhaustive but as is relevant to me:
The XML file formal of Texmacs is great compared to Lyx's unsupported 
docbook sgml format.
Lack of hyperlinks in Texmacs pdf output is a disadvantage, Lyx supports 
this.
Texmacs not using Tex is a great advantage offset by the equally great 
loss of all the text packages that exist.
Texmacs sessions are great, not quite matched by Lyx's scripts that can 
run for various file types.
Lyx's shortcut and accellerator keys allow me to enter and format 
documents without using the mouse. Texmacs can theoretically do this, 
but Lyx behaviour is better out of the box. Like Texmacs it tells you 
the shortcuts as you go along


I don't think I will have many more comments.

Sam

On 14/06/10 14:12, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> More feedback:
>
> (I'm not whining, but I chap only gets to give this sort of feedback in the
> first couple of weeks with a new tool, so I thought it would be worth
> taking advantage of).
>
> I can't find out how to insert an em-dash.
>
> I miss the document outline view of Lyx, and the ability to indent or
> in-indent in the outliner which would change headings from section to
> subsection or back again.
>
> I miss the split view where I could see and edit two parts of the document
> at once.
>
> With 1.0.7.3 I can't get rid of blank line between code environment and a
> session environment
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to set document style defaults, like what
> the font size should be for fixed size fonts, etc; which was simple with
> Lyx.
>
> A good ting about Texmacs is the native xml support, something that
> attracted me, and, in what is becoming more attractive - lack of tex!
>
> Sam


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