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Re: [TeXmacs] A set of Scheme functions and TeXmacs macros for formatting references


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  • From: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • To: Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>
  • Cc: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] A set of Scheme functions and TeXmacs macros for formatting references
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:32:25 +0200
Dear Giovanni,
this of yours is a pretty cool project! Aside from the intrinsic value I
like a lot the extensive documentation you wrote.

I think this kid of efforts should be centralized in a repository, but I’m
not clear how to do it in an easy to maintain way. Are there any suggestions?

Best
Max


> On 22. Jun 2019, at 13:23, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 18.06.19 22:17, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
>> I see, that indeed could be tricky. define is a special form which is
>> interpreted differently at top level or inside a function. In particular
>> I’m not sure what will happen with a define inside a TeXmacs macro. But I
>> think you can try tm-define because this define symbols directly in the
>> common environment which all the scheme evaluation inherit. I think this
>> is more what you want.
>>
>> Best
>> Max
>>
>>
>>> On 18. Jun 2019, at 21:09, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18.06.19 22:05, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
>>>> Hi Massimiliano,
>>>>
>>>> I have tried extern and it did not work.
>>>
>>> More precisely it seems that within extern I cannot write a define ...
>>> instruction, but to be sure I would have to try again. I postpone and
>>> will write together with the rest.
>>>
>>>
>>> Giovanni
>>>
> I have been able to do the automatic loading. It is described in the help
> files, it took me a bit of time to follow the thread.
>
> The right instruction is <use-module|([dir1 [dir2 ... dirn]] filename)>
> where the Scheme list indicates the path, which as far as I understood must
> be a subpath of one of the paths that TeXmacs know about (~/.TeXmacs/progs
> is one of them, so if dir1 is a subdirectory of ~/.TeXmacs/progs, TeXmacs
> will find and load the Scheme files).
>
> The style file itself can be put in the "user" directory of TeXmacs, that
> is again ~/.TeXmacs, under /packages, and it will appear in the
> "Document->Style-> Add package" menu.
>
> I have not yet understood how to execute a macro only once inside TeXmacs,
> so the macros I use to define the list of formats get executed every time
> TeXmacs wants to (there is an update mechanism that I do not understand but
> I guess it is the general update mechanism of TeXmacs). The multiple
> execution has no effect, as the macros I wrote check for the existence of a
> format before adding it, but I would like to correct this and get the
> behaviour I want (only one execution for this macro). If anyone has a
> suggestion, thanks in advance.
>
>
> I have updated the files at https://github.com/pireddag/formatRef and I
> think it is possible to use them even if they are not robust (multiple
> executions that I have mentioned above, missing checks on input) and
> incomplete.
>
> Incompleteness that I see: it is not possible to define a format where the
> reference number is within parentheses, as the format string is always
> before the reference. I have in mind a solution with string-split, and
> perhaps for making it general I would need to understand better the TeXmacs
> format (with trees) and how to manipulate it.
>
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