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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Hi all,

 maybe in this discussion we should consider also that we already have Tools->LaTeX->Preview which give access to the PDF preview of the LaTeX conversion directly. Tweaking the TeXmacs file to have the correct number of lines would take a typical user just 2-3 iterations.

I would like to hear from people for which this task is important/common. In my workflow it never happens to need to meet a strict number of pages, so I do not have a feeling of the importance of such an enhancement.

Best

Max

On 2. May 2021, at 14:51, Basile Audoly <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Amir,

to me, it is unclear how much you can gain by such tweaking, given that page limits typically come with rules to avoid working around them (such as imposed margin size and font size). I am not fully convinced that this feature would be worth the implementation effort.

Best wishes,

Basile

Le 2 mai 2021 à 14:17, Amir Michail <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hello,

The idea is that if the TeXmacs document takes k pages, then exporting to LaTeX will generate a document that also takes k pages.

TeXmacs would accomplish this by *automatically* experimenting with the LaTeX output and tweaking some spacing in the TeXmacs document to get the desired output. This (automated) process might take a few tries but should be faster than doing the same thing manually.

All tweaks would be shown to the user to ensure that nothing bad was done.

Such a feature would make it easier to submit papers to conferences/journals with page limits.

What do you think?

Amir