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Dear all,

I do have to say a few things about LaTeX here:

  - In my experience, LaTeX is inconsistent with itself.  I have experienced
    non-trivial changes between LaTeX executions on different machines and
    non-trivial changes when adding certain packages such as hyperref.

    So: for people who are afraid of our TeXmacs -> LaTeX export,
    they also should be afraid of executing LaTeX on different machines or
    when making apparently benign changes.

  - TeXmacs has the advantage of generating high quality "standard" LaTeX.
    Springer actually contacted me once whether they could use one of my 
papers
    as a demo for "how to write the kind of LaTeX that they wanted to have"
    (not realizing that this kind of LaTeX was precisely not hand-written).
    So, in a sense, one may have less trouble with documents generated via 
TeXmacs,
    even though it is always good to double-check (for reasons that were 
mentioned).

Best wishes, --Joris



On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:58:31AM +0200, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> Dear Patrick
> 
>  I use very often conversion to LaTeX from TeXmacs and what your colleagues 
> claim does not seems true to me. 
> 
> The LaTeX code which TeXmacs generates is perfectly normal and with very 
> few macros and usually compile fines even if you still have to check. There 
> could be of course problems and in case you find some bug/problem it is 
> important that you report it in the texmacs-dev mailing list (or here) so 
> that we can try to fix it.
> 
> Since TeXmacs is not based on LaTeX the conversion process is nontrivial 
> but usually if you do not do crazy stuff in your TeXmacs document 
> everything should work fine. Again, it could happen that the file does not 
> compile but it is usually easy to fix.
> 
> Anyway here or in the forum you can ask for help in case something is not 
> working.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Massimiliano Gubinelli
> 
> 
> > On 6. Apr 2021, at 11:28, patrick Teller <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > dear colleagues
> > 
> > I do not know TeX (I was lazzy) and I write courses and problems using 
> > TeXmacs.
> > 
> > I will  have to submit a paper in LateX and colleagues tell me that 
> > TeXmacs's LateX is bad and has compiling problems.
> > 
> > Do you think  I may submit the paper written with TeXmacs and saved in 
> > LateX through TeXmacs ?
> > 
> > thank you for your help
> > 
> > Patrick Teller
> > 
> > Le 05/03/2021 à 22:17, TeXmacs a écrit :
> >> Dear all,
> >> 
> >> I am happy to announce the release of TeXmacs 1.99.19.
> >> 
> >> The new release consists mainly of a large number of bug fixes,
> >> including many fixes for sporadic segfaults during LaTeX imports.
> >> 
> >> The new release also comes with a further enhanced structured
> >> search and replace facility.  You may now use wildcards both
> >> during structured search _and_ structured search and replace.
> >> (Example: swap the numerator and denominator of a fraction;
> >> wildcards are inserted using C-1, C-2, ...)
> >> You may also modify some preferences for search & replace.
> >> 
> >> Best wishes, --Joris
>