Re: [Texmacs-dev] Global format in LaTeX export?!?!

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Nix N. Nix wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 10:47, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > > Why isn't global formatting exported to the resulting latex file? Neither 
> > > page
> > > format nor global font setting in texmacs show up in the resulting .tex 
> > > file.
>
> TeXmacs /is/ doing the \usepackage{geometry} thing now, right ? I
> checked briefly with 1.0.4.2.

Yes it is.

> I'm not sure we drop /all/ global formatting any longer.  What version
> of TeXmacs was this observation made with ?
>
> > Well, Nix and I have already made some first improvements in that direction,
> > but I nor he have had time yet to push this through further.
>
> What should be our next step ? Font sizes ?

The margins (as you did, but please check my comments) and font sizes.
I also would like to add a possibility to add options to style files
in TeXmacs. This does seem to be useful in many cases and would increase
the compatibility with LaTeX. However, I don't know when I will have
time for this.

Another major issue is writing TeXmacs equivalents for the most
important LaTeX style files (Springer, Elsevier, AMS, ACM, IEEE, etc.).
We have started with svjour and are working on the Elsevier styles.
If you have time, then help on this issue is very much appreciated.
When we do have the appropriate styles, then we also need to adapt
the export filters (mainly for author/address/etc information).

Best wishes,

Joris