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Once you have given your document a name, you may start to type your text. Later on, we will explain how to type special characters, which are necessary for writing texts in foreign languages. The following is a sample text, which you may try to type as an exercise:
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When you are done with typing, we recommend you to first save your
document, using the save buffer item in the
icon menu, or by pressing the F3 key. A message on the
footer should confirm the success of this operation:
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For your safety, TeXmacs actually autosaves your document every two minutes. If you forgot to save your document before closing TeXmacs, or if your computer is unpowered for some reason, then you will be prompted whether you want to retrieve the last unsaved changes in your document as soon as you try to load it. Again, a message on the footer confirms autosaving:
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Figure 3. TeXmacs automatically
autosaves your document every two minutes.
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When you are done with typing, you usually want to print your document
out. This can be done by selecting the icon menu, or by
pressing the F4 key. Before printing, it might be that
you want to setup your printer using
In order to retrieve your text after closing TeXmacs, you first have
to push the icon menu or hit the F2 key. Next,
you may select your file using the file browser. In our example, the
file test.tm indeed appears in the file browser and we may
retrieve it by rapidly clicking twice on it.
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