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[Giovanni Piredda <address@concealed>]

On Sat, 2026-08-08 at 13:07 +0200, Zoltán Kovács wrote:

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Giovanni, Liza, thanks again for the useful hints!

Meanwhile I managed to solve some of the problems (with quite big efforts, the source code of TeXmacs is still a mystery for me):

I follow just part of the code, but it looks very nice

(lazy-format (newlang-format) newlang)

This last line was crucial and it took me several months to figure out. Usually it already appears in the system-wide startup script progs/init-texmacs.scm for the already working languages like python. 

I think having a wiki for TeXmacs will help to make this hard-won knowledge available to everyone. Possibly I will manage to start a Wikibook at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page, let me update everyone if I do it.

A working example can be found at https://github.com/kovzol/bibref-book. In particular, the file Dockerfile.texmacs-src builds TeXmacs from sources on Debian Trixie (after tweaking two things: allowing underscore in keywords in syntax highlighting and improving index ordering when numbers are present), improves the Hungarian translation and displays a saved TeXmacs document in an X11 window. I will provide a blog entry on this soon, but maybe the summary above is useful for some of you. Should I fork TeXmacs on GitHub, add these changes and send a pull request to make it possible to incorporate them upstream?

As far as I know the development is based on svn, please take a look at https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/contribute/contribute.en.html

Giovanni