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[Basile Audoly <address@hidden>]

Hi Amir,

good point, but to me the author is the only entity capable of deciding which/whether an equation can be changed from inline to displayed and vice-versa. I doubt a computer program can decide which equations are good candidates. This is just my two cents.

Basile

Le 2 mai 2021 à 14:59, Amir Michail <address@hidden> a écrit :

On May 2, 2021, at 8:51 AM, 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

Maybe the heuristics could include inlining some formulas. 

You could even give TeXmacs hints about what you are willing to change such as which formulas could be inlined.

Amir

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