Embed a style package in the document

#1

I wonder whether it is possible to embed a style package in the tm document so that my customization packages are standalone?

#2

I would just copy the code in the style package in the preamble. Does this fit your purpose?

#3

I wonder whether there are already automatic solutions.

#4

Not that I know of. There is an automatic way to extract style packages but not to embed it. Do you want to embed a package you wrote or one of the standard packages? Can you illustrate your use-case more in detail? It should be possible to create some support for it, but it seems to me not a very common need and not very difficult to achieve manually in few keystrokes, so I’m wondering if it really makes sense to have some more code for it.

#5

It is not a current necessity (and in fact, not necessarily embedded). I was imagining the following two cases:

  1. Distribution of the tm files. When there are more users to use TeXmacs and sharing the code become more common, it might be useful. There is a point for an automatic including the user style packages - users can do them by hand, but it might be error-prone: one might forget to do so, or if there is some updates in the style package, one forgets to update the embedded style package.

  2. Chat / remote tools. I don’t know how TeXmacs treat it at the moment. For example, what if one uses in the chat some macros which is defined in a customized style package while another user does not have / load that package?