The style-sheet language

In the section about writing a simple style package we already gave you a first impression about the style-sheet language of TeXmacs. In this section, we will give a more complete survey of the available features. For more detailed descriptions, we refer to the chapter about the TeXmacs primitives.

Most style-sheet primitives can be obtained from the Source menu when you are in source mode. You may also obtain them from the Insert→Macro and Insert→Executable menus when editing usual text. Alternatively, you may use the A- and M-e prefixes in source mode and the M-i and M-e prefixes otherwise. Furthermore, we recall that the hybrid \-key may be used for creating macro-applications or arguments, depending on the context. Finally, the A-right and A-left keys are used for inserting arguments.

• Assignments
• Macro expansion
• Formatting primitives
• Evaluation control
• Flow control
• Computational markup