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[Miguel de Benito Delgado <address@hidden>]

Hi,

On 22 Jan, 2013, at 21:28, Anderson Brasil <address@hidden> wrote:

> 1) I've just tried to compile the source code of texmacs (trunk) at linux 
> mint 14 and got

TeXmacs is not compatible with Guile 2.0, which compiles the scheme code and 
thus makes it very hard to combine with TeXmacs' module system. You need to 
install Guile 1.8.

> 2) I've found a "typo" for the translation of "proof" to portuguese. What 
> are the files who contains those translations, so I can correct it (and, of 
> course, to create a patch and send it for the developers)?

Check src/TeXmacs/langs/natural/dic. By the way, if you are interested in 
contributing to the translations, please do enable the "Developer tool" in 
the Tools menu and look for the items in the new "Developer" menu related to 
translations. Though still in alpha stage (loading of non-utf8 files will 
fail, for instance), you may find of use:

* Rebuild translations file:

This overwrites the current dictionary on disk with its previous contents 
plus all translations that had taken place in the GUI (up to the time of 
clicking the menu item). This adds some strings that might not make much 
sense like numbers, etc, but it's a first step I hope.

* Force reloading of translations:

This does just that: tells TeXmacs to reread the dictionary from disk and 
update the GUI. 

This functionality is buggy and bound to disappear as soon as I / we think of 
a better method, so don't sweat it if it doesn't exactly work, and 
****always**** backup your work. Suggestions are welcome though (aside from 
using .po files, yes, I know that'd be great).

> Errrrr, as a last resort, I could always try to read the sourcecode 
> (assuming that guile isn't that hard, as I am only familiar with c++) but I 
> suppose that there better ways. So, any advices?

I think in a first stage the C++ and scheme code won't enlighten you much 
wrt. to the styles and macros. Maybe the best would be to peruse the style 
files in src/TeXmacs/packages and src/TeXmacs/styles: first find something 
that interests you in the documentation (use the search!!), and after reading 
the almost surely succinct description grep for it in the style files and 
read the related stuff.

A key concept to keep in mind is that of quoting and unquoting. You can read 
about it in any scheme tutorial, and it's mostly the same for the macros 
language.

If you still want to experiment with the scheme code, read the relevant parts 
of the manual (scheme development, etc.), enable the developer mode and use 
the scheme session a lot and read the code (meta+click on symbols to jump to 
definitions). I like to use the symbol browser to look for commands that 
might do what I want (type a regular expression in the filter, for instance 
"url-.*\?" to look for predicates related to urls.)

Scheme is real fun!!! But it definitely won't get your research / work done 
or written. Trust me. ;)

Best,
--
Miguel de Benito.