mirror of https://github.com/texmacs/doc.git
74 lines
3.1 KiB
Tcl
74 lines
3.1 KiB
Tcl
<TeXmacs|1.0.3.7>
|
|
|
|
<style|tmdoc>
|
|
|
|
<\body>
|
|
<tmdoc-title|Introduction>
|
|
|
|
In this chapter we describe how to interface <TeXmacs> with an extern
|
|
application. Such interfaces should be distributed in the form of
|
|
<hyper-link|plugins|../plugin/plugins.en.tm>. The plug-in may either
|
|
contain the extern application, or provide the ``glue'' between <TeXmacs>
|
|
and the application. Usually, interfaces are used interactively in shell
|
|
sessions (see <menu|Insert|Session>). But they may also be designed for
|
|
background tasks, such as spell checking or typesetting.
|
|
|
|
The communication between <TeXmacs> and the application takes place using a
|
|
customizable input format and the special <em|<TeXmacs> meta-format> for
|
|
output from the plug-in. The meta-format enables you to send structured
|
|
output to <TeXmacs>, using any common format like <verbatim|verbatim>,
|
|
<LaTeX>, <name|Postscript>, <name|HTML,> or <TeXmacs> itself. This is
|
|
useful when adding a <TeXmacs> interface to an existing system, since
|
|
<LaTeX> or <name|Postscript> output routines are often already implemented.
|
|
It will then suffice to put the appropriate markers in order to make a
|
|
first interface with <TeXmacs>.
|
|
|
|
As soon as basic communication between your application and <TeXmacs> is
|
|
working, you may improve the interface in many ways. Inside shell sessions,
|
|
there is support for prompts, default inputs, tab-completion, mathematical
|
|
and multi-line input, <abbr|etc.> In general, your application may take
|
|
control of <TeXmacs> and modify the user interface (menus, keyboard,
|
|
<abbr|etc.>) or add new <value|scheme> routines to <TeXmacs>. Your
|
|
application may even extend the typesetter.
|
|
|
|
In the directory <verbatim|$TEXMACS_PATH/examples/plugins>, you can find
|
|
many examples of simple plug-ins. In the next sections, we will give a more
|
|
detailed explanation of the interfacing features of <TeXmacs> on the hand
|
|
of these examples. In order to try one of these examples, we recall that
|
|
you just have to copy it to either one of the directories
|
|
|
|
<\verbatim>
|
|
\ \ \ \ $TEXMACS_PATH/plugins
|
|
|
|
\ \ \ \ $TEXMACS_HOME_PATH/plugins
|
|
</verbatim>
|
|
|
|
and run the <verbatim|Makefile> (if there is one).
|
|
|
|
<tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven>
|
|
|
|
<tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
|
|
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
|
|
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
|
|
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
|
|
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
|
|
Documentation License".>
|
|
</body>
|
|
|
|
<\initial>
|
|
<\collection>
|
|
<associate|language|english>
|
|
<associate|page-bot|30mm>
|
|
<associate|page-even|30mm>
|
|
<associate|page-odd|30mm>
|
|
<associate|page-reduce-bot|15mm>
|
|
<associate|page-reduce-left|25mm>
|
|
<associate|page-reduce-right|25mm>
|
|
<associate|page-reduce-top|15mm>
|
|
<associate|page-right|30mm>
|
|
<associate|page-top|30mm>
|
|
<associate|page-type|a4>
|
|
<associate|par-width|150mm>
|
|
<associate|sfactor|4>
|
|
</collection>
|
|
</initial> |