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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Hi all,
 I confirm, the LaTeX file below fails to compile. It seems that the theorem 
package is not compatible with the amsart class, if one replaces it with the 
article class then compilation succeeds. 

Max


> On 6. Apr 2021, at 16:43, Frank <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Joris,
> 
> It seems to me that there are some issues about the default LaTeX template 
> exported from TeXmacs (document style is amsart).
> 
> I export the current article that I am writing, and there are issues in the 
> preamble. I have removed all the contents, but the compilation is still 
> failing. I attach the exported LaTeX file.
> 
> I suppose that it might be better to fix such kind of issues instead of 
> letting users modify the exported LaTeX files. I cannot remember whether I 
> have reported this bug before - seemingly I might have done it.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Frank
> 
> On 4/6/21, TeXmacs wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
> <test.tex>