The standard TeXmacs styles

The user may select a major style from the Document→Style menu. The major style usually reflects the kind of document you want to produce (like a letter, an article or a book) or a particular layout policy (like publishing an article in a given journal). In addition to a major style, the user may select one or more additional packages from Document→Use package. Such packages may customize the major style, provide additional markup, or a combination of both.

In this chapter, we will survey the standard document styles and packages provided by TeXmacs. Most style files and packages have an abstract interface, the d.t.d. (data domain definition), which specifies which macros are exported by the style or package, and how to use them. Distinct styles or packages (like header-article and header-book) may share the same abstract interface, but differ in the way macros are rendered. For this reason, we will mainly be concerned with the description of the standard d.t.d.s, except when we focus on the rendering. Users may customize standard styles by defining new ones which match the same abstract interface (see the chapter on writing TeXmacs style files).

• General organization
• The common base for most styles
• Standard environments
• Headers
• Sections