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[Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>]

I have been also able to make it work, limiting myself to inserting a 
table at the beginning of the document for the moment (to Michael - 
sorry for intruding in your thread, how to insert automatically 
generated code into a TeXmacs document was something that was in my mind 
since a while).

G.

On 05.11.20 23:42, TeXmacs wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> TeXmacs internally represents all documents as trees.
> The current buffer can be retrieved using
>
>      (buffer-tree)
>
> You can next use the routines 'tree-ref' and 'tree-set' to
> extract subtrees and modify them.  For instance, assume that
> you created a document with an empty first line and
> that you created a Scheme session just below.
> Then the buffer tree will be of the form
>
>      (document
>        ""
>        ...your Scheme session...)
>
> You may then do
>
>      (tree-set (tree-ref (buffer-tree) 0) `(strong "Hi there!"))
>
> to change the first line into a welcome greeting.
>
> I hope that this helps to get you started.
> For more info, see "The Jolly Writer", chapter 14.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 11:38:19PM +0500, 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