Standard markup

Various standard markup is defined in std-markup. The following textual content tags all take one argument. Most can be found in the Text→Content tag menu.

strong

Indicates an important region of text. You can enter this tag via Text → Content tag → Strong .

em

Emphasizes a region of text like in “the real thing”. This tag corresponds to the menu entry Text → Content tag → Emphasize .

dfn

For definitions like “a gnu is a horny beast”. This tag corresponds to Text → Content tag → Definition .

samp

A sequence of literal characters like the ae ligature æ. You can get this tag via Text → Content tag → Sample .

name

The name of a particular thing or concept like the Linux system. This tag is obtained using Text → Content tag → Name .

person

The name of a person like Joris . This tag corresponds to Text → Content tag → Person .

cite*

A bibliographic citation like a book or magazine. Example: Melville's Moby Dick . This tag, which is obtained using Text → Content tag → Cite , should not be confused with cite . The latter tag is also used for citations, but where the argument refers to an entry in a database with bibliographic references.

abbr

An abbreviation. Example: I work at the C.N.R.S. An abbreviation is created using Text → Content tag → Abbreviation or the A-a keyboard shortcut.

acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the first letter of each word in a name or a phrase, such as HTML or IBM . In particular, the letters are not separated by dots. You may enter an acronym using Text → Content tag → Acronym .

verbatim

Verbatim text like output from a computer program. Example: the program said hello . You may enter verbatim text via Text → Content tag → Verbatim . The tag may also be used as an environment for multi-paragraph text.

kbd

Text which should be entered on a keyboard. Example: please type return . This tag corresponds to the menu entry Text → Content tag → Keyboard .

code*

Code of a computer program like in “ cout << 1+1; yields 2 ”. This is entered using Text → Content tag → Code . For longer pieces of code, you should use the code environment.

var

Variables in a computer program like in cp src-file dest-file . This tag corresponds to the menu entry Text → Content tag → Variable .

math

This is a tag which will be used in the future for mathematics inside regular text. Example: the formula sin ² x + cos ² x =1 is well-known.

op

This is a tag which can be used inside mathematics for specifying that an operator should be considered on itself, without any arguments. Example: the operation + is a function from R ² to R . This tag may become depreciated.

tt

This is a physical tag for typewriter phase. It is used for compatability with HTML , but we do not recommend its use.

The following are standard environments:

verbatim

Described above.

code

Similar to code* , but for pieces of code of several lines.

quote

Environment for short (one paragraph) quotations.

quotation

Environment for long (multi-paragraph) quotations.

verse

Environment for poetry.

center

This is a physical tag for centering one or several lines of text. It is used for compatability with HTML , but we do not recommend its use.

Some standard tabular environments are

tabular*

Centered tables.

block

Left aligned tables with a border of standard 1ln width.

block*

Centered tables with a border of standard 1ln width.

The following miscellaneous tags don't take arguments:

TeXmacs

The TeXmacs logo.

TeX

The TeX logo.

LaTeX

The LaTeX logo.

hflush

Used by developers for flushing to the right in the definition of environments.

hrule

A horizontal rule like the one you see below:

The following miscellaneous tags all take one or more arguments:

overline

For overlined text, which can be wrapped across several lines.

underline

For underlined text, which can be wrapped across several lines.

fold

Macro with two arguments. The first argument is displayed and the second one ignored: the macro corresponds to the folded presentation of a piece of content associated to a short title or abstract. The second argument can be made visible using Insert → Switch → Unfold .

unfold

Macro with two arguments x and y , which yields the unfolded presentation of a piece of content y associated to a short title or abstract x . The second argument can be made invisible using Insert → Switch → Fold .

switch

Macro with two arguments x and y , where y is a set of possible representations of the switch and x the current representation. The function keys F9 , F10 , F11 and F12 can be used to switch between different representations.

phantom

Function with one argument x . This tag takes as much space as the typesetted argument x would take, but x is not displayed. For instance, the text “phantom” as an argument of phantom yields “”.

set-header

Function with one argument for permanently changing the header. Notice that certain tags in the style file, like sectional tags, may override such manual changes.

set-footer

Function with one argument for permanently changing the footer.