mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>]

Dear TeXmacs users,

I was glad to see in the menu an option to insert a program in pseudo-code, 
as in algorithm2e from latex I supposed. But after I inserted such an 
environment, I got lost : nothing in the menu to insert such or such 
construct, and I may have not looked properly, but I couldn’t find anything 
in the documentation either to help me.

Google led me to a modified environment that allowed for line numbering to 
work properly (not my main problem right now, but useful probably in the long 
run), and from there I could find some commands such as algo-if, 
algo-require, algo-inputs, algo-outputs, algo-return, algo-print, algo-while, 
algo-repeat, algo-for, algo-comment.

if-else : I couldn’t find how to obtain it. Massimiliano Gubinelli posted an 
example using algo-if-else-if but I haven’t understood how to use it in 
practice (when I try it, I obtain a regular if then construct, and no else)
Using algo-if followed by algo-else : else is not vertically aligned with the 
if.

What should one do to get a "if then else" properly indented ?

Last thing : some of the keywords are translated, some are not. For example, 
« if », « while », « print », « for » have French equivalents, but « do », « 
else » and « then » don’t.

Indeed the dictionaries in 
Resources/share/TeXmacs/langs/natural/dic/english-….scm (it is true for every 
language I guess) do not offer entries for those keywords. The fix is there 
quite easy. I could easily provide a fixed dictionary for English to French, 
but I suppose it would be better to add the keywords in every language, which 
I am quite unable to do !

Regards,

Pierre-Henri

P.S. : I recently asked for TeXmacs to be installed on our computers in our 
school. I am not sure where the local files will be stored as every user has 
a home repertory which is stored in a server (accessible through T: disk, as 
os is Windows 10). Is there any advice to give the technician to install 
properly TeXmacs on our network ?

Hopefully, I’ll manage to convince some of my colleagues to give TeXmacs a 
try. I still have no regret switching from LaTeX to TeXmacs, but sometimes 
there is still a bit of frustration, such as with this pseudo-code 
environment...