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Peter Koepke | 1 Jul 2003 22:38
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Using TeXmacs for Presentations

Dear TeXmacs community,

I have been using TeXmacs since the beginning of this year and it has
become my
standard tool for writing maths and other texts. This is superb
software which puts into practice ideas which other have thought to be
impossible to implement. Thanks for the ingeneous concept and the effort!!

I would like to present my mathematical texts directly in lectures and
talks. Since I am using GNOME, I can use the presentation mode. By
adjusting the paper size, I can make one page fit exactly into my laptops
screen. If I had a key combination, by which the text would move exactly
one page up or down, this would give me a perfect slide show of the
lecture, without printing into ps, opening gv etc. Also corrections could
be done within the presentation mode.

Can somebody give me a scheme-command, which will implement moving exactly
one page up or down?

Thanks and best wishes,

Peter Koepke
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David Allouche | 2 Jul 2003 12:03

Re: Using TeXmacs for Presentations

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:38:40PM +0200, Peter Koepke wrote:
> Dear TeXmacs community,
> 
> I have been using TeXmacs since the beginning of this year and it
> has become my standard tool for writing maths and other texts. This
> is superb software which puts into practice ideas which other have
> thought to be impossible to implement. Thanks for the ingeneous
> concept and the effort!!

Thanks for the cheers.

> I would like to present my mathematical texts directly in lectures
> and talks. Since I am using GNOME, I can use the presentation mode.
> By adjusting the paper size, I can make one page fit exactly into my
> laptops screen.

Use "automatic" page type instead.

> If I had a key combination, by which the text would move exactly one
> page up or down, this would give me a perfect slide show of the
> lecture, without printing into ps, opening gv etc. Also corrections
> could be done within the presentation mode.
> 
> Can somebody give me a scheme-command, which will implement moving
> exactly one page up or down?

You do not want a command to move up or down one page. And actually, I
am not even sure TeXmacs has this.

Probably you want to use the "switch" structure and some tools to
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Kasper Souren | 2 Jul 2003 17:04
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BiBTeX..

Hi,

I can't get BiBTeX to work from inside TeXmacs. I really don't have any 
experience with it, but I also tried to use existing .bib's. Without success. 
I just get "[?]" where the ? is red. And nothing shows up under the heading 
"Bibliography".

What could I be doing wrong?

For example, for this .bib entry I'd try <cite|shotwell-01>.

 <at> Book{shotwell-01,
  author =       "Firstname Shotwell",
  title =        "Title title title title title title title title title
                 title",
  publisher =    "Publisher publisher publisher",
  year =         "1901",
}

bye,
Kasper
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Felix Breuer | 2 Jul 2003 18:40
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Re: Using TeXmacs for Presentations

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:03, David Allouche wrote:
> Sorry for the complicated answer... I have a some experimental code
> which does some complicated construction and browsing of switches, but
> it depends on outdated function names and it is quite big.

I am also interested in doing presentations with TeXmacs and doing them
directly from TeXmacs would be significantly easier than what I am doing
right now. (TeXmacs->PS->Image->gThumb Presentation)

I am aware of the switch environment, I do not use it however, for I
find creating a presentation with it difficult: When I start writing I
do not know what will be on what page. Mapping content to pages is the
last stage of the creative process not the first.

Hence, I would be very interested in your switch-generation-code! It
would be nice if some of the presentation-specific code you come up with
could be put on the Wiki or even be integrated in TeXmacs itself.

Regards,
Felix
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Peter Koepke | 2 Jul 2003 22:19
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Re: Using TeXmacs for Presentations

Dear All,

> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:03, David Allouche wrote:
> > Sorry for the complicated answer... I have a some experimental code
> > which does some complicated construction and browsing of switches, but
> > it depends on outdated function names and it is quite big.
> 
> I am also interested in doing presentations with TeXmacs and doing them
> directly from TeXmacs would be significantly easier than what I am doing
> right now. (TeXmacs->PS->Image->gThumb Presentation)

OK, putting some kind of hyperlinks into documents will allow surfing
through the document. Still I think that a simple solution could and
should be possible. The GUI is able to position the file exactly at the
beginning of the file, it can also move by approximately one page up or
down, and it can position the file if I am using the drawbar of the
TeXmacs window. After the document is cut up into pages as in the paper
mode, it should be possible to position the top left hand corner of each
page exactly in the top left hand corner of the X-window or of the full
screen.

Somebody has some good ideas for this?

Best,

Peter Koepke
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David Allouche | 3 Jul 2003 09:55

Re: Using TeXmacs for Presentations

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:40:51PM +0200, Felix Breuer wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:03, David Allouche wrote:
> > Sorry for the complicated answer... I have a some experimental code
> > which does some complicated construction and browsing of switches, but
> > it depends on outdated function names and it is quite big.
> 
[...]
> 
> I am aware of the switch environment, I do not use it however, for I
> find creating a presentation with it difficult: When I start writing I
> do not know what will be on what page. Mapping content to pages is the
> last stage of the creative process not the first.

That is exactly the problem I worked to address.

> Hence, I would be very interested in your switch-generation-code! It
> would be nice if some of the presentation-specific code you come up with
> could be put on the Wiki or even be integrated in TeXmacs itself.

I have no time to bring this code to any kind of public-release
quality, and I probably will not have this time before several weeks.

However, I will post it as-is on texmacs-dev so you can have a look
and see how you can try to fix it.

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Giovanni Biczó | 3 Jul 2003 16:02
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Fonts

Hi, TeXmacsers, 

I have two questions about about fonts: TM doesn't seem to use kerning pair 
information of tfm-files. Is that true? If yes, please consider this as a 
feature request :) Kerning pairs are very important in typesetting in my 
opinion.

And the second question: how can a non-standard font (one not provided by the 
tetex distro) installed? The font (family) in correctly installed under LaTeX 
and TeX, and after downloading the TeXmacs-fonts-1.0 package and modifying 
it, I got the tfms and pks needed. But this does not mean that I can also use 
them :(
Is there a doc or howto about font installation?

thanks in advance,
Giovanni
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Giovanni Biczó | 3 Jul 2003 16:34
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OT: list archives

This is offtopic

How can I retrieve the TeXmacs-users mailing list archive for example in mbox 
format? sending the LIST, GET etc causes the sympa program to answer that the 
list is private... :((
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Javier Arantegui Jimenez | 4 Jul 2003 00:40
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Problems with .fig using TeXmacs 1.16

Hello!

Today I wrote a document using the latest version of TeXmacs (1.16)
and inserted a figure that was a .fig. There where no problems but
when I tried to preview or print the document there was a blank space
where sould be the figure.

After that I reinstalled version 1.15 and I could print the document
without problems. Maybe it is a bug of the new version. My distro is
SuSE 8.1 and my desktop is KDE 3.1.0.

Javier
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Kuo-Ping Chiao | 4 Jul 2003 10:15
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copy and paste Maxima plot

How to copy and paste the plot generated by Maxima? The plot from Maxima is
shown on another window. It seems to me no way to highlight it, so it can be
pasted to the texmacs editing window. 

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