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[Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>]

I never tried with the insert procedure; I did it through a helper 
macro, calling the Scheme one through the extern primitive. That worked 
(for tables and for graphics), but - I am guessing - it does not do what 
you want, that is having the code inserted in the source code of the 
document (I do not know if I am guessing correctly!); instead, it 
inserts the typeset output (text or table or graphics) in the document.

Despite this, I have an idea, which I have not been able to get to 
immediately work but maybe is good, I explain myself with a 
not-yet-working code

<assign|insertHere|<\macro|x>
    <extern|(lambda (x) '(insert ,x))|<arg|x>>

Then use as <insertHere|arg> at the insertion point. In my test it seems 
to me that TeXmacs does not recognize the argument x of the macro as 
argument to the Scheme function--but I do not know how to fix that.

G.

On 05.11.20 19:38, Михаил Бахтерев wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> First of all i would like to thank TeXMacs developers heartily
> for the great software.
>
> My question is following.
>
> I would like to generate interactively (in notepad manner) some
> math, tables and drawings during some not such a big data
> analysis. I've managed to generate expression trees and
> drawings, for instance, like this
>
>    (define (frac x)
>      (insert `(with "mode" "math" (frac "a" ,x))))
>
> But i cannot put this structure into the document correctly. As
> far, as i understand, insert procedure inserts an object at the
> cursor position. But the cursor position is right at the next
> Scheme] prompt. So the formulae or the drawing are putted, where
> next expression should be entered, not at the document itself,
> or at the usual position for the result of expression
> evaluation.
>
>    Scheme] 1
>      1 ; i mean here
>
> Could this behaviour be changed somehow? Is there any way to
> place generated construction at the result position (which would
> be ideal) or at the document somewhere?
>
> - Michael Bakhterev, respectfully