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Text and paragraph properties each time you make a citation, it isīetter to create a citation environment. You often make citations and that you want those to appear in italic, Own new environments in your own style file. When you get more acquainted with TeXmacs, it is possible to add your Further examples of frequently used tags are strong (for writing “important” Other examples are lists of items (see Insert→ Itemize ) or numbered lists (see Of environments are theorem, proposition, remark and so on (see Insert→ Enunciation ). Text into sections (see Insert→ Section ) and use specificĮnvironments (also called tags). Purposes, such as the TeXmacs documentation.Īs soon as you have selected a document style, you can organize your Besides, there are styles for common journals and special For instance, the article style can be used for writingĪrticles. Generic, article, book, letter, exam, beamer, seminar, source. Typesetting citations and footnotes in a nice way and so on.Ĭurrently, several standard document styles have been implemented: Layout issues, such as numbering of sections, pages, theorems, Selecting a document style in Document→ Style, TeXmacs takes care of specific Text, such as regular text, citations, footnotes, theorems, etc. Usually, long documents have a structure: they are organized inĬhapters, sections and subsections, they contain different types of This information should help you to orient yourself in the document. WeĪlso display all environments which are active at the cursor position. Some text properties can also be changed for all theĪt the right hand side of the footer, the character or object (like aĬhange in the text properties) just before the cursor is displayed. Selecting a region and then using the Format menu. YouĬan change the text properties (font, font size, color, language) inĬhange the text properties of the text you have already typed by Mode using a 10 point roman font and the generic document style. “generic text roman 10”, which means that you type in text Text properties at the current cursor position. Īt the left hand side of the footer, you see the document style, the Should specify the language of the document in the menu Document→ Language. In order to hyphenate foreign languages correctly, you Long words at borders of successive lines are automatically If necessary, accented characters can also be obtained using

Shortcuts in order to obtain accented characters and other special Most modern system also implement standard The usual English characters and punctuation symbols can easily be Writing simple documents About Learn Contribute 1.
