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

Thanks. I'll use 1.0.7.7 until I can update.

-- Dave W

Miguel de Benito Delgado <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

  using the latest SVN version, I see line breaks in included code, so that seems to be some bug in 1.0.7.10.

  As to the question whether there is some way to easily find out what changed: there is none that I know of, short of going through all the documentation again (or rather through a diff of it). However changes aren't always wholly documented and it can be a real pain, yes.

Cheers,

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Miguel de  Benito.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:22 PM, David G. Wonnacott <address@hidden> wrote:

Is there any sort of guide to how to deal with changes in the TeXmacs behavior? While I like most of the user interface changes, the introduction of changes in the processing of my TeXmacs documents can be quite startling and unpleasant.

Specifically, if I have a document that has

<\big-figure>
<include|Examples/HERA2-idiom-control.cc>

<label|fig:branches>
</big-figure|Control Flow and HERA Branch Instructions.>

This renders quite differently in 1.0.7.10 than it did with 1.0.7.7 (I'm somewhat outdated because I tend to just get whatever TeXmacs comes with Ubuntu, and don't update Ubuntu that often, though we're in the process of going up to 12.04). In 1.0.7.7 it did what I wanted, namely show the contents of the included file, _preserving_newlines_. But in 1.0.7.10, the entire file contents appears on one line.

I did some web searches, looked at the TeXmacs change log (though I didn't see anything about this), did a few searches of the TeXmacs documentation (e.g. include newline) and just generally messed with it a bit in TeXmacs, but can't get it to just look the way it used to look.

I'd appreciate any guidance about this issue, and in general about how to deal with this sort of thing in TeXmacs. I've been really impressed at the improvements in stability and UI of TeXmacs, and in the last few years have been recommending it much more widely; I use almost entirely TeXmacs and (for close collaboration) GoogleDocs now. But I must say the one thing that is still unpleasant about using TeXmacs is the fact that a new sub-sub-sub version number will cause a document to change appearance, so I have to go through an entire 150 page book and look for places where the formatting has been messed up.

If this was a bug in 1.0.7.10 that was fixed before 1.0.7.15, I'll be happy to update to a newer version, with apologies for an unnecessary complaint.

Thanks,
    Dave Wonnacott