Planned changes in the TeXmacs document format
  1. Currently, the arities of TeXmacs operators are not allowed to vanish (in which case they become leaves). For operators like concat this is not very clean nor very handy. We therefore plan to allow arities of zero. The formatting operators of the form (format how) will in particular become operators of arity zero.
  2. We are not happy at all with the way tables are formatted. We currently provided imperfect mosaic and split operators, which should be replaced with a single, more powerful operator. However, we are not yet very sure about the right choice.
  3. Several extensions of the format should be foreseen. In Typeset/data/data.gen.cpp , you will notice that we have already introduced the graphics , point , line , arc and bezier operators, which are not yet implemented. Other future operators will concern footnotes, multicolums, dynamic texts, graphics, computer algebra output, database or spreadsheet facilities, etc.
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