Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs as a tool for Scientifical/Technical translations

[Henri Lesourd]

Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas wrote:

> so what would be really nice was to have some kind of master document 
> in the same spirit of po4a[1] with environments for each language and 
> some type of markup that can be used to make pairs of original and 
> translated text, all this without leaving our preferred writing tool. 
> In the process of producing the output of a file, say in pdf format, 
> the "original language text environments" would be hide and only the 
> translated ones would be visible and taken into account for indexes, 
> table of figures and so on.
>
> [1] http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/
>
> It this possible with TeXmacs? there is any pointer to documentation 
> to read for getting this thing done?
It is definitely possible (and not very difficult) to do that,
the simplest would be to define a TeXmacs macro for containing
multilingual text, which would be either completely "opened",
i.e., you see all the languages together, or either which would
show only one language, the control for all the macros being
done by means of a global variable.


The relevant pointers in the documentation are:
Help->Reference guide->Stylesheet language
Help->Reference guide->TeXmacs primitives

You can also have a look at :
http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/aTeXmacsTutorial.pdf

, which describes in a tutorial and detailed way how to
write TeXmacs macros, and how to implement TeXmacs plugins,
including how to define new menus and new keyboard shortcuts,
which could be useful to switch the global variable which
controls everything.


> Ps: My mail server was banned to write to the users mailing list (may 
> be someone used it to send spam) and I cant find the mail where I was 
> informed that my mail was not arriving to users list. If any one can 
> help me with this I will really appreciate this.
I just received a mail about a similar problem, I'm looking
forward for solving it (I have no more news about that now).


Happy Christmas & New Year, Henri