[Texmacs-dev] Please help for newby debugging problems!

[Norbert Nemec]

Hi there,

I just started to do dig into the TeXmacs internals trying to debug a 
extremely strange problem with references. (It definitely is a bug, but I 
have not yet managed to isolate it from my 100k diploma thesis. So I guess I 
have to hunt the bug myself...)

Currently I get stuck in packages/section/section-book.ts:
The chapter and appendix macro both use <surround|||>  while section does not 
use it. What exactly does <surround|||> do in that context? The entry in the 
WiKi is not very conclusive.

Generally: is there a way to display nested tags like the "chapter" macro 
definition in some human-readable form? Preamble mode does not help at all. 
The only way I managed to understand what is happening was to use a text 
editor and rearrange the huge line by hand. Is there any description of the 
detailed syntax of texmacs files? Especially the exact handling of white 
space and line breaks would help. (Including the question how far TeXmacs 
preserves whitespace, line-breaks and indentation when reading/saving files.)

Currently the readability and editabilty (funny word! but edibility just 
wouldn't do... :-)   ) of style files really is a huge barrier for starting 
extending and debugging the set of styles.

Ciao,
Nobbi

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