Layout issues |
As a general rule, TeXmacs takes care of the layout of your text.
Therefore, although we did not want to forbid this possibility, we do
not encourage you to typeset your document visually. For instance, you
should not insert spaces or blank lines as substitutes for horizontal
and vertical spaces between words and lines; instead, additional space
should be inserted explicitly using
Several types of explicit spacing commands have been implemented. First of all, you can insert rigid spaces of given widths and heights. Horizontal spaces do not have a height and are either stretchable or not. The length of a stretchable spaces depends on the way a paragraph is hyphenated. Furthermore, it is possible to insert tabular spaces. Vertical spaces may be inserted either at the start or the end of a paragraph: the additional vertical space between two paragraphs is the maximum of the vertical space after the first one and the vertical space before the second one (contrary to TeX, this prevents from superfluous space between two consecutive theorems).
As to the paragraph layout, the user may specify the paragraph style (justified, left ragged, centered or right ragged), the paragraph margins and the left (resp. right) indentation of the first (resp. last) line of a paragraph. The user also controls the spaces between paragraphs and successive lines in paragraphs.
You can specify the page layout in the