Re: [Texmacs-dev] [Documentation] New user misunderstanding

[Henri Lesourd]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:41:20PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
>  
>
> > I encountered a new TeXmacs user who had no previous exposure to LaTeX.
> > He did not understand $math mode$, and thought that to type mathematics,
> > the whole document had to be in math mode.  He was complaining that
> > formatting didn't work right...
> >
> > It was easy to explain, but having this experience, I can say that the
> > folks writing the tutorial and beginner documentation should keep in
> > mind that many folks out there have never used anything but a
> > conventional word processor or text editor, and have no exposure to
> > LaTeX or TeX typesetting.  Square one.
> >    
>
> Thanks, we'll keep that in mind ;^)
>
>  
One thing I did once that could help is having an :
[[
  <assign|mode|math>
]]

in the preamble, or in a stylesheet. This way, your new
TeXmacs document becomes defaulted to math mode, this
can be simpler for beginners (it avoids the need to
raise too much questions in the 1st place).