Hi TexMacs users,
Almost every Latex editor wants paragraphs to not contain any newlines, as they wrap long lines automatically. TexMacs’ export feature unfortunately inserts such newlines in order to maintain a seemingly arbitrary maximum window width.
How do I turn this off? I didn’t see any options for this in the preference menu. I can manually go through the whole document and delete all these newlines, but it’s very tedious.
Thanks,
James
Hi and welcome to the forum.
As far as I understand, what you wish is not included in the options. I checked the file init-latex.scm in the progs/convert directory, where I assume possible options are set, and I did not see it (I looked at the function application (converter texmacs-stree latex-stree ... ).
I think this would be a good feature request (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=texmacs, submit “bug” under Item Group->Wishlist). I haven’t been able to find the piece of code which inserts the newlines, but perhaps someone else will manage to find it.
Hi James, welcome to the forum!
As a workaround you can increase the line length using the output-set-line-length scheme command. You can press Meta+X and run (output-set-line-length 1000000000).
EDIT: for some reason this command doesn’t work from my-init-texmacs.scm file.
It may be because TeXmacs (b/c of lazy loading) runs the functions in output.scm after my-init-texmacs.scm (and also after my-init-buffer.scm)
Setting in my-init-texmacs.scm
(import-from (convert tools output))
before
(output-set-line-length 1000000000)
seems to work.
So I tried making a my-init-texmacs.scm file in the “progs” directory with the contents:
(import-from (convert tools output))
(output-set-line-length 1000000000)
Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to affect the Latex export. I’m using TeXmacs version 1.99.8 if that matters.
The suggestion from @pireddag also works for me. What also works for me is
(delayed (:idle 1000) (output-set-line-length 1000000000))
Which directory did you put my-init-texmacs.scm in? It needs to be in the progs folder of you TEXMACS_HOME_PATH. The easiest way to make sure you have the right file is to enable Tools -> Developer tool and the go to Developer->Open my-init-texmacs.scm.
Okay so actually the solution did work for me after all. I hadn’t made the file correctly the first time. MacOS was hiding the true extension (.txt). Thanks everyone for your help!
Happy that it did.
I saw that the parameter does not affect the export to some other formats (I tested TeXmacs Scheme, Python, C++ and Xml), of course it is good that it is working for LaTeX export!