mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Jizhe Zhang <address@hidden>]

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.

Oh yes, the shortcut is meta+right. But is sitll doesn't work...

I find one interesting thing: if I open the help document of TeXmacs
where there is a table, then I can use meta+right to add a column. But
if I create a new table myself, then nothing happens if I use
meta+right. So I am also wondering if I miss something.

BTW, in windows meta key can be replaced by escape key. I use it in that way.
>
> Are you sure there's no Windows-specific shortcut blocking the way?

Errr, I don't really know about that...

>
> 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
>