Re: [Texmacs-dev] New special env variable: path to self

[Henri Lesourd]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> The problem is that as far as I can determine, there is no way for
> that scheme procedure to know the position in the document of the node
> being typeset.
>
>  
It seems to me that there is a very easy way to determine the path of
a parameter of a Scheme macro, it is :
<<
(tm-define (my-scheme-macro parm)
 (:type (tree -> tree))
 (with path (path->tree parm)
    blah
    .......
)
>>

Using this path, you can find the path (and get a pointer to
the corresponding tree) of the embedding TeXmacs macro,
i.e., the corresponding unexpanded markup that called the
macro, not only the path of one of the arguments ; or either,
a pointer to one of the surrounding tree, and use these different
tree/paths to do the calculations you want.

For example, if your markup looks like that :
<\session>
 <my-input|$PROMPT1|$INPUT1>
 <output|$OUTPUT1>
 .................................
</session>

, and if the <my-input|...> macro is implemented by means of
a Scheme function, then you can get the path of :

-> The surrounding <session|...> tag ;
-> The current <my-input|...> tag ;

Given that in order to be able to contain several
<my-input|...> & <output> tags, the <session|...>
tag is in reality encoded this way :
[[
<\session>
MULTIPLE TAGS
</session>

<====>

<session|<document|MULTIPLE TAGS>>
]]

, the paths of the <session>, <my-input> & <output>
tags will have the shape :
[[
path(<session|...>) == (PREFIX)
path(my-input|...>) == (PREFIX 0 2*i)
path(output|...>) == (PREFIX 0 2*i+1),   0 <= i <= N
]]

Now that we arrived here, it is probably clear that from
inside the <my-input|...> Scheme code, one can compute
the index "i", and decide a different color for using in the
display of the <my-input|...>, depending on the position
of the <my-input|...> in the embedding <session|...> tag.

Note 1 : The  (tm-upwards-path p tags nottags) function
 in graphics-utils.scm illustrates how to write a Scheme
 function to find the first embedding tag of some kind,
 starting from a path somewhere in the document ;

Note 2 : Don't forget that if your macros use Scheme,
 you must use a <use-module|...> (if I correctly remember...)
 in your stylesheet to force the loading of the corresponding
 Scheme files **before** the opening of the document which
 use the tags that use the Scheme code to display themselves ;

Hope it helps. If some problem remains for solving your
problem this way (and if I correctly understood what you
need), feel free to post new questions.


> Would you be willing to accept such a patch for TeXmacs? Would you
> want it done in another manner?
>
>  
Joris is the person in charge of accepting patches in
this part of TeXmacs.