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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

I found a solution, for what is worth. After inserting a new branch of the \unroll with M-rightarrow, move the cursor to the end of the previous line, and hit Enter there.

An aside thought, somewhat offtopic:

TeXmacs is great in leveraging the tree structure by contextualising actions dependent on cursor position, but sometimes I wonder how to make basic editing more transparent to the user, particularly headlines and lists (this playing well with unroll is somewhat advanced usage...).

I am lately using several different outline tools, I find myself wanting to reorganise hierarchical itemise lists, i.e. move elements up/down in the enumeration or promote/demote (depth). These seem valuable operations that should be programmable in Scheme, maybe even a 'markdown mode' where '* SPC' at line start creates a new item in a new list.

Not finding time to implement it, I just wanted for the moment to share the sentiment.

Álvaro.

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 12:05, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

I am preparing a presentation in TeXmacs.

There are lots of improvements in beamer mode, but I am having some problems with basic list manipulation when using unroll.

I would like to make enumerate items appear gradually. The documentation (F1, "traversal of a presentation") offers a 'hack' for this (follow along in an empty document to see the problem):

1. create an enumerate (M-e)

2. delete the item decorator (i.e. backspace your way through '1.')

3. insert an unroll (\unroll, or from the menu)

4. now, press Enter, you get an 1.

--> here begin the problems <--

5. you also get an empty line you can't delete

6. when you're ready, type M-rightarrow to insert the next step in the unroll

7. to insert new items, you need to press Enter, and that causes superfluous empty lines, that once added cannot be deleted.

The only work around is to constantly undo and cut/paste numbered lines in the generated empty spaces. It's very time consuming.

What am I doing wrong? Do you know of another way?

Best,

Álvaro.