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[Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>]

Thanks Joris,

I’ll await the next TeXmacs release for this specific use then.

Regards,

Pierre-Henri

> Le 20 nov. 2020 à 12:20, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Pierre-Henri,
> 
> Each list environment (e.g. enumerate) comes with two variants
> enumerate* and enumerate-continued.  For the moment, they are not
> exposed in the interface though.  For the next release, I added
> a style package prefix-enumerate with a global setting to make
> what you want the default.
> 
> Best wishes, --Joris
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:36:21AM +0100, Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A couple of weeks ago I wanted to try editing in TeXmacs a math test for 
>> my students, and I renounced it because of nested enumeration style and 
>> used latex instead.
>> 
>> TeXmacs gave me this :
>> 1.
>> 
>>   a.
>> 
>>   b.
>> 
>> when I would have liked this instead :
>> 1.a)
>> 
>> 1.b)
>> 
>> Of course there might be times when I would want to write :
>> 1. In this question, f is supposed to be… and we’ll show that…
>> 
>> then the question would be subdivided into subquestions but, most of the 
>> time, I just want the second presentation quoted before.
>> 
>> Of course I tried to find the answer in the documentation, and by 
>> experimenting. I am slowly learning, but despite having spent quite some 
>> time, I am not there yet.
>> 
>> From what I could understand, customizing enumerations appearance might be 
>> done with redefining render-list macro. Being such a newbie, it took me 
>> some time to understand how I would add this macro at the top of my 
>> document (entering source mode et al), and I struggled a bit with the 
>> inactive tag before finding the answer in the documentation, that is, I 
>> have to hit return key, and this inside the command itself to get rid of 
>> the inactive tag… (I know this might sound stupid to many of you, but I 
>> think it might be good to document the difficulties I am encountering 
>> while slowly getting accustomed to TeXmacs, hence the learning curve I 
>> wrote about…)
>> 
>> Introducing this as a preamble to my document :
>> <assign|render-list|<macro|body|<surround|||body>>> 
>> I obviously managed to change enumeration appearance (and of course, it is 
>> garbage with everything stuck to the left with no margin whatsoever), but 
>> I am a bit surprised to see that there still is a vertical separation 
>> between the top and the inside enumerate items, so it makes me think this 
>> might not be the solution I am looking for…
>> 
>> So am I in the right direction ? (I suppose not…)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Pierre-Henri