Slightly fuller resources explaining drawing function?

#1

Hi, does anyone know of any resources explaining the basics of the drawing tool, beyond the extremely cursory level of the TexMacs manual?

I have basic newbie questions and I’m finding the trial-and-error process really frustrating.
First, I can’t figure out how to end a line once you’ve started drawing it. I keep trying various random combinations of clicks, double-clicks, escape key, etc., and I still haven’t been able to figure out what works consistently (just that sometimes I succeed and sometimes not). Also, at some point during this process of trying to figure this out, I seem to have accidentally zoomed out my figure beyond its bounds and I can’t figure out how to restore it to normal size (command-Z which is normally the undo shortcut isn’t doing it.)

Any suggestions? Thanks

#2

I doubt I can be much help, but the only information I know of for the drawing function is the manual, the Jolly Writer (https://www.scypress.com/book_download.html), which are probably pretty similar (they both mention that a double click will end a line), and the graphics tutorial (https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/documents/tutorials/TeXmacs-graphics-tutorial.pdf), which I haven’t looked at yet (but I need to).

Jay

#3

Here probably the quickest way is from the source view but … it takes some guessing too. I think is the magnify environment variable in the with tag that encloses the drawing. It would be helpful for me more detail on what happened and maybe a copy-paste of the source code of the drawing (please ask if you do not know how to do it).

I fully agree that TeXmacs needs more documentation and also some documentation in a tutorial form but I have very limited energy to do that in the near future.

G.

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#4

It does have a nice set of videos: https://www.youtube.com/@texmacsvideos5790

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