Re: [Texmacs-dev] Applied patches for version 1.0.1.15

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > 1439: Applied, but I got some errors when using figures:
> >
> > ------------------------ error -------------------------
> > ! Argument of address@hidden has an extra }.
> > <inserted text>
> >                 \par
> > l.662    \end{array}\right)$.} \]}}
> >                                    }
> > ------------------------ source ------------------------
> > {\image{\tmfloat{h}{small}{figure}{\quad \epsfig{file=Uconv1.ps}
> > \quad}{\label{Uconv1-fig}A region of the form
> > $\tmmathbf{\mathcal{H}}_{\tmmathbf{U}} \cdot \tmmathbf{\zeta}$, where
> > \[ \text{$\tmmathbf{U}= \left(\begin{array}{cc}
> >      - \sqrt{1 / 2} & \sqrt{1 / 2}\\
> >      - \sqrt{1 / 2} & - \sqrt{1 / 2}
> >    \end{array}\right)$.} \]}}}
> > --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Unfortunately, LaTeX does not seem to allow passing \[ \] as an argument
> to a function.  I'm surprised this didn't fail before, since, before my
> patch, the LaTeX from such a figure contained
>
> ...
>     \caption{\[ ... \]}
> ...
>
> which also fails (as I have confirmed).
>
> Do you think it would be a good idea to force $ $ instead of \[ \]
> inside an argument to a function ?

Does \[ ... \] fail inside general function arguments,
or inside \caption only. What about replacing \[ ... \]
by $$ ... $$ or \begin{equation*} ... \end{equation*}?

> > 1447: Assigned to David; should I apply it, or should David still
> >   make some modifications?
>
> It seems OK to me - minus perhaps the 2D vector stuff, which is probably
> too generic to be in the tmtable.scm file.  However, I don't know where
> that code belongs, but tmtable needs 2d vectors, if it is to do
> cell-level borders.

Let's wait for David to answer what he plans to do.