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["El.Douwen" <address@hidden>]

are you speaking about tables or about blocks ?

Le 11 oct. 2012 à 02:02, Jizhe Zhang a écrit :

> Hi
> 
> I think I figured what's the problem. Alright, it's sill my problem.
> Here is the detail: I tried to add columns immediately after creating
> a big table by \table command, but I didn't create the specific table
> by M+T N T or something like that. I thought that would work, but
> obviously, the answer is no.
> 
> Sorry for disturbing everyone for such a trivial problem in the end...
> Thanks again for your great help.
> 
> Best
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:27 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Just started my own TeXmacs. I had to manually remove a few of OSX's 
>> useless system shortcuts, but after that Ctrl+arrows (it's the Ctrl key, 
>> not Alt, by the way, at least on my own system) worked well for inserting 
>> cells in a table.
>> 
>> Are you sure there's no Windows-specific shortcut blocking the way?
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Jizhe Zhang wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Sorry to interrupt about the cookbook discussion, but back to my
>>> original problem, especially the problem 1, the malfunction of
>>> alt+right in table environment, could anybody help me, please?
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Jizhe
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:57 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> I just started to use TeXmacs. It's indeed a good tool especially to 
>>>> write
>>>> small documents. But I encounter a bunch of problems described in the
>>>> following. BTW, I am using windows 7.
>>>> 
>>>> 1 The document says that alt+right can generate a new column in the table
>>>> environment. I tried, but the only thing happens is that on the left 
>>>> footer
>>>> there is a line saying "keyboard shortcut: alt+right", other than that 
>>>> nothing
>>>> happens. Is there anything I missed?
>>>> 
>>>> 2 Obviously lots of commands are compatible with LaTeX, for example \[ is
>>>> equivalent to A+$. This gives me lots of convenience. But where can I 
>>>> find a
>>>> list about what commands are compatible? The \[ thing doesn't appear in 
>>>> the
>>>> manual at all.
>>>> 
>>>> 3 How to insert the title with command? Especially where can I find a
>>>> comprehensive document about commands? In the manual it's mostly keyboard
>>>> shortcuts, but I prefer these commands personally. They are easy to 
>>>> remember
>>>> and similar to LaTex.
>>>> 
>>>> I think these are the most urgent problems I have when using TeXmacs.
>>>> 
>>>> As a novice I also have some thoughts about TeXmacs. No doubt that it's 
>>>> a great
>>>> word processor. I fell in love with it immediately after ten minutes of 
>>>> trial.
>>>> However, I cannot find a very good document about this great tool. The 
>>>> only
>>>> user document is only less than 100 pages long and lots of important 
>>>> things are
>>>> too concise. Comparing to LaTeX, an entry level tutorial is about that 
>>>> length.
>>>> I believe that it's one of the greatest obstacle when making this 
>>>> fantastic
>>>> tool more popular. A novice like me will soon get very frustrated when 
>>>> he finds
>>>> that lots of questions remain unsolved even in the so called user 
>>>> manual. Also
>>>> the helping documents are spread everywhere and not consistent. The 
>>>> downloaded
>>>> document is even not the same as the document on the website. Lots of 
>>>> links on
>>>> the website are lost.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, thanks in advance for all your help. I do hope that such a 
>>>> powerful word
>>>> processor will become more and more popular in the future. I think 
>>>> that's why I
>>>> cannot help coming up with these boring comments.
>>>> 
>>>> Best
>>>> JZ
>>