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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

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:
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> 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:
>>> 
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>>> 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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