Conventions for this manual

Throughout the TeXmacs manual, menu entries will be typeset using a sans serif font, like in Document, File→Load or Text→Font shape→Italic. Keyboard input will be typeset in a typewriter font inside boxes, like in C-s. At the righthand side of menu entries, you see keystroke equivalents, when these are available. The following abbreviations are used for such keystrokes:

S-

For shift key combinations.

C-

For control key combinations.

A-

For alternate key combinations.

M-

For meta key combinations.

H-

For hyper key combinations.

For instance, A-C-b stands for alternate-control-b. Spaces inside keyboard shortcuts indicate multiple key-presses. For instance, M-t N b stands for meta-t N b.

The alternate, meta and hyper keys are not available on all keyboards. On recent PC's, the meta key is often replaced by the windows key. In the case when one or several modifier keys are missing on your keyboard, you may use escape instead of M-, escape escape instead of A- and F5, escape escape escape or A-C- instead of H-. For instance, escape w is equivalent to A-w. You may also configure the keyboard modifiers in order to take full advantage out of the powerful set of keyboard shortcuts which is provided by TeXmacs.

Notice that the TeXmacs menus and keyboard behavior are contextual, i.e. they depend on the current mode (i.e. text mode or “math mode”), the current language and the position of the cursor inside your document. For instance, inside math mode, you have special keyboard shortcuts which are handy for typing mathematical formulas, but which are useless in text mode.