Re: New TeXmacs version 2.1.5

On Sat, 2026-08-08 at 13:07 +0200, Zoltán Kovács wrote:


> Giovanni, Liza, thanks again for the useful hints!
> Meanwhile I managed to solve some of the problems (with quite big
> efforts, the source code of TeXmacs is still a mystery for me):
> 

I follow just part of the code, but it looks very nice


> 
> (lazy-format (newlang-format) newlang)
> This last line was crucial and it took me several months to
> figure out. Usually it already appears in the system-wide startup
> script progs/init-texmacs.scm for the already working languages like
> python. 
> 


I think having a wiki for TeXmacs will help to make this hard-won
knowledge available to everyone. Possibly I will manage to start a
Wikibook at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page, [1] let me update
everyone if I do it.



> 
> A working example can be found
> at https://github.com/kovzol/bibref-book. In particular, the file
> Dockerfile.texmacs-src builds TeXmacs from sources on Debian Trixie
> (after tweaking two things: allowing underscore in keywords in syntax
> highlighting and improving index ordering when numbers are present),
> improves the Hungarian translation and displays a saved TeXmacs
> document in an X11 window. I will provide a blog entry on this soon,
> but maybe the summary above is useful for some of you. Should I fork
> TeXmacs on GitHub, add these changes and send a pull request to make
> it possible to incorporate them upstream?
> 

As far as I know the development is based on svn, please take a look
at https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/contribute/contribute.en.html

Giovanni

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page,
    https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page