Re: Modifications record

hi
i have absolutely no knwoledge in informatics and in the informatics of TeXmacs
but i can say that editing my-init-texmacs can be an option to reate personalized and sharable customization
Vincent

> Le 7 juil. 2023 à 00:24, Maxime Devos <[email protected]> a écrit :
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> Op 06-07-2023 om 12:59 schreef Richard gomez:
>> (version française ci-après)
>> Hello,
>> I have finished writing a book using TeXmacs, and I would like to keep a record of the modified settings throughout the process to address my publisher's requests (most of these modifications were aimed at reducing the size of the document due to budget constraints).
>> Is it possible to edit the list of modified settings? I would like to have a record of all these changes for future reference.
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>> I have made an effort to document some of them in a file, but unfortunately, I haven't noted down everything (it's not easy to be both engaged in the action and describe it in real-time).
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> I'm not at all a TeXmacs expert, but I don't think TeXmacs has a list of modified settings to edit in the first place.  Instead, a TeXmacs document appears to contain a list of differences with the default -- you can edit it, but that means changing the current settings, not recording what has changed since the previous version.
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> However, you can find this list of changes to the default, which might be sufficient for your purposes.
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> If you open a TeXmacs file as plain text (in some notepad-like application), you'll at the end see something like:
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> <\initial>
>  <\collection>
>    <associate|page-medium|paper>
>    <associate|save-aux|false>
>  </collection>
> </initial>
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> I haven't ever modified sizes, so I don't know for sure where the settings for paper size, margins, font size etc. appears, but I would guess it appears in the <\initial>...</initial> somewhere.  Or maybe it is in the front of the file instead, near the
> <TeXmacs|2.1>...<style|...>.
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> Maybe there's a graphical interface for this as well, but I have never searched for it.  (I neither have use for the hypothetical graphical interface nor this plain text interface.)
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> Combine this with a version control system (even something basic like keeping separate file old.tm and new.tm will do), then you can compare the <\initial>...</initial> of the two files to figure out what has changed.
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> Best regards,
> Maxime Devos.
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