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[Miguel de Benito Delgado <address@hidden>]

Hi,

  I just committed changes to the SVN which allow you to place
captions of tables and figures above them. If you can compile TeXmacs
from source, yuo just need to use the standard way to customize your
document using the little wrench icon in the focus bar. While having
the cursor inside a table or figure you'll see among the "standard
options" an item "Captions above".

Or you can wait for the soon-to-come next release. ;)

Best,
--
Miguel de  Benito.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Miguel de Benito Delgado
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> welcome to the list Rodolfo.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Rodolfo Jordao <address@hidden> wrote:
>> First, how do set the caption above the table floating object? i tried to
>> modify the macro but my current knowledge of the inner language workings 
>> are
>> quite limited... could someone help me out in this?
>
> I recommend you start with Tools->Edit macros... You can filter the
> macros on the left pane and look at how macros related to the one you
> are interested in are defined. This is how I found out that I needed
> to copy "render-small-figure", just inverting the rows in the table. I
> looked for small-table, then saw that it used render-small-figure
> (select "source" at the bottom left of the dialog.
>
> This is the result:
>
> <assign|render-small-figure-rev|<macro|type|name|fig|cap|<tabular*|<tformat|<cwith|1|-1|1|-1|cell-lsep|0spc>|<cwith|1|-1|1|-1|cell-rsep|0spc>|<cwith|2|2|1|1|cell-height|0.5fn>|<twith|table-valign|B>|<cwith|3|3|1|1|cell-hyphen|t>|<twith|table-width|1par>|<twith|table-hmode|min>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-lsep|0spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-rsep|0spc>|<cwith|1|1|1|1|cell-hyphen|t>|<cwith|3|3|1|1|cell-lsep|0spc>|<cwith|3|3|1|1|cell-rsep|0spc>|<table|<row|<\cell>
>   
> <small|<\surround|<figure-name|<arg|name><figure-sep>><list-caption|<arg|type>|<arg|cap>>|>
>     <arg|cap>
>   </surround>>
> </cell>>|<row|<cell|>>|<\row>
>   <resize|<arg|fig>|<minus|1l|2fn>||<plus|1r|2fn>|>
> </row>>>>>>
>
> It looks awful, yes. Just copy the text and inside TeXmacs go to
> Edit->Paste from->TeXmacs. Something will be copied but you won't see
> it: just hit backspace to "deactivate" the macro and see its contents.
> You will have to deactivate the inner macros as well to see their
> contents.
>
> Now all you need to do is create a new small-table macro which uses this 
> one:
>
> <assign|small-table-rev|<macro|body|caption|<compound|next-table><render-small-figure-rev|table|<compound|table-text>
> <compound|the-table>|<arg|body>|<arg|caption>>>>
>
> Again, copy the code and "Edit->Paste from->TeXmacs" into a document.
>
> You'll want to add these two to your own style file in
> ~/.TeXmacs/packages, so you can use it in every document without
> having to create a preamble or pasting the macros directly in the text
> as we did.
>
>> Second, is it hard to create a own type of title page? understand this as
>> the amount of hack needed.
>
> Nope, it shouldn't be hard. Search for "title" in the documentation.
> You can also look at some style file and look at how it's done (you
> can search in code with Shift+F1). It can be a bit confusing at the
> beginning but it pays off ;)
>
>> Lastly, how do i change the bibliography layout? I need to make it into a
>> harvard
>> style referencing (the package cite-author-year already took care of the
>> in-text problems!)
>
> This is quite more complicated. Either you write a scheme file copying
> what is done for the "tm-*" styles, or you use external (ru)bibtex. I
> have no experience with the latter, though.
>
> It'd be great to have CSL support but someone has to write it...
>
>> As a veteran of Latex (Not expert! just some years of experience) i must 
>> say
>> that the basics that anyone would need are perfectly cooked up. The main
>> drawback that i found so far that may keep me from switching permanently
>> from Latex/Lyx is the lack of complete documentation if one wants to "dive
>> in", the user manual does not have all that may be needed.
>
> This is true and in the spirit of many open source projects you'll
> have to see how things are done (in the style files, in the scheme
> code) to do your own stuff. It can be frustrating at times. However,
> the manual contains a wealth of information which is just not so easy
> to find / browse. Be sure to search thoroughly and / or ask here.
>
> Good luck!
>
> PS: on second thought I might add this -rev macros (and the rest for
> figures, unnumbered environments, etc.) to the code base. They are
> handy and common enough to be offered as standard variants of the
> standard ones. Stay tuned...
> --
> Miguel de  Benito.