Re: [Texmacs-dev] Special characters in regular text?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Please try with todays version 1.0.5.10.
Some of the quoting routines have changed.

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On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 07:02:31PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Somehow, the handling of ASCII-special characters is severely broken in
> TeXmacs 1.0.5.9:
> 
> I have the following file tryout.tm:
> ----------------
> <TeXmacs|1.0.5>
> 
> <style|generic>
> 
> <\body>
>   x:x;x,address@hidden/x(x)x=x?x'x"x[x]x\<less\>x\<gtr\>x\|x-x+x*x
> 
>   x#x$x%x^x&x_x{x}x~x\<backslash\>x
> <  x#x$x%x^x&x_x{x}x~x\<backslash\>x
> </body>
> 
> <\initial>
>   <\collection>
>     <associate|language|american>
>   </collection>
> </initial>
> ----------------
> 
> As you see, there are two lines with one "word" (no spaces!) each,
> containing all the different ASCII special characters. The first line
> contains those without special meaning in LaTeX, the second one those
> that have to be quoted in LaTeX.
> 
> First, within TeXmacs:
> * The first line is displayed correctly, no problem.
> * In the first line, the double quote " cannot easily be entered with
> automatic quotes active. It would be helpful if:
>     a) it could always be entered using the <\> <"> <return> key-sequence.
>     b) automatic quotes would automatically be switched off in verbatim
> environments
> * The second line is displayed incompletely: the characters '^' '~' and
> '\' are physically there (you can enter them and cursor movement
> respects them) but they are not displayed and do not even have a width.
> 
> Now, when exporting to LaTeX, I get complete garbage:
> 
> -----------------
> \documentclass{letter}
> 
> %%%%%%%%%% Start TeXmacs macros
> \newcommand{\tmbsl}{\ensuremath{\backslash}}
> %%%%%%%%%% End TeXmacs macros
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> x:x;x,address@hidden/x(x)x=x?x'x \tmbsl "x[x]x<x>x|x-x+x*x
> 
> x \# x \$ x \% x\^{ }x\&x \_ x \{ x \} x\~{ }x{\backslash}x
> 
> \end{document}
> -----------------
> 
> As you can see, there are various problems:
> * The doublequote gets \tmbsl and spaces prepended.
> * In the lower line, most characters have spaces around or some other
> garbage. What I would like to see is:
> 
> -----------------
> \documentclass{letter}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> x:x;x,address@hidden/x(x)x=x?x'x \tmbsl "x[x]x<x>x|x-x+x*x
> 
> x{\#}x{\$}x{\%}x\^{ }x{\&}x{\_}x{\{}x{\}}x\~{ }x$\backslash$x
> 
> \end{document}
> -----------------
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
> 
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