This page contains the description of the following unimplemented
commands
\accent,
\addcontentsline,
\address,
\addtocontents,
\appendix,
\arraystretch,
\author \@author,
\displaylines,
\eqalign,
\eqalignno,
\futurenonspacelet,
\insert,
\leqalignno,
\newinsert,
\newhelp,
\newfam,
\new@mathgroup,
\openup,
\vadjust,
and environments
abstract. [File under construction, there
are other unimplemented commands]
The abstract environment is not implemented in Tralics. (this environment is not defined by LaTeX, but by classes like article and report). However, it is possible to define one that can be used once for a titlepage. See Configuration page.
This command is followed by a 8-bit
number and by optional
assignments. Here optional
assignments stands for zero or
more assignment commands other
than \setbox. If the assignments are not followed by a
character,
where character stands for any of the
commands just discussed in the previous paragraph, TeX
treats \accent as if it were \char, except
that the space factor is set to 1000. Otherwise, the character that
follows the assignment is accented by the character that corresponds
to the 8-bit number (The purpose of
the intervening assignments is to allow the accenter and the
accentee to be in different fonts.) [...] Finally TeX
sets \spacefactor=10000.
So, according to the
TeXbook, the following is legal:
\accent`a\count0=0\par \accent'23\count0=0e. It produces an
`a', then a `é' (provided that the current font uses the OT1-encoding).
In Tralics an error is generated and the behavior is that of
like \char. The space factor is left unchanged.
See scanint
for how the argument is scanned.
This command is defined by LaTeX as \def\addcontentsline#1#2#3{% \addtocontents{#1}{\protect\contentsline{#2}{#3}{\thepage}}} The first argument is the name of a file extension (toc, lof or lot), the second a symbolic name (for instance, it could be part, in this case \protect \contentsline{#2} will evaluate later to \l@part); the last argument will in general be a command (like \numberline) that does something with the line number.
In Tralics, the value of \thepage is undefined, this explains why this command is not implemented.
This command is not defined by LaTeX, but by classes like letter, and maybe some classes for articles to journals. However, it is possible to define such a command that can be used once for a titlepage. See Configuration page.
See \addcontentsline above. This command takes two arguments, and prints in a file defined by the first argument, the value of the second. This value is expanded, except for: \label, \\index, \glossary (these commands and their arguments are not written), commands preceeded by \protect, and \thepage (this command is expanded later, when the page is shipped out).
Unimplemented. See elsewhere.
Lamport says that: \appendix is a declaration that changes the way sectional units are numbered. It generates no text, and does not affect the numbering of parts. Since Tralics does not handle section numbers, this command does nothing really useful.
You may consider: \endsec{}\xmlemptyelt{appendix}, this closes all sectioning environments and puts <appendix> on the top of the XML tree.
In LaTeX, this command remember its argument in \@author, and the class may (or may not) use its value via \maketitle; it may also make it undefined later on.
It is not implemented in Tralics, but you can design your own titlepage format. See Configuration page.
This command is defined in TeX (and LaTeX for compatibility). It corresponds to the LaTeX environments multline or gather. You say for instance $$\displaylines{line1\cr\line2\cr ... last line\cr}$$ Each line is centered (but you can use \hfill). Exercise 19.16 of the TeXbook explains how you can fake equation numbers. Unimplemented
This is a plain TeX construction. A typical example is $$\eqalign{line&1\cr\line&2\cr last& line\cr}$$. Its LaTeX equivalent would be \begin{align*}line&1\\line&2\\ last& line\end{align*}. The \eqalign construction is allowed anywhere in a display math environment and corresponds to a aligned environment in LaTex; see example below.
These are plain TeX constructions. A typical example is $$\eqalignno{line&1\cr\line&2&(a)\cr last& line&b\cr}$$. The effect is the same as \eqalign, as described above, but the second and third equations have an equation number on the right. In the case of \leqalignno, it would be on the left. The equation number may overlap the formula. If a formula contains \eqalignno it should contain nothing else. You can use \noalign{\hbox{and}} to separate equations with text; the LaTeX equivalent of this construction being \intertext. The LaTeX philosophy is to use automatic equation numbers, so that this construction becomes less interesting, however the \tag command can be used to change the equation number. Moreover, a global indicator says that all equation numbers are to be put on the left (or right).
Example. If you say \tagasattribute then Tralics will put the tags as attribute for the formula. Since there is one equation, what you get is a single attribute containing a,b. Note that the use of \tag* inhibits putting parentheses around the tag. There is a third option, \tagatcurpos that puts the tag at the current position (with some space on the left). In this case, parentheses around tags are correct.
% equivalent of \eqalign
$$ T:\begin{aligned}L&1\\L&2\\ L&3\end{aligned}$$
% equivalent of eqalignno
\begin{align}L&1\notag\\Lamp;2\tag{a}\\ L&3\tag*{b}\end{align}
<formula type='display'>
<math mode='display' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'>
<mrow>
<mi>T</mi><mo>:</mo>
<mtable displaystyle='true'>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mn>1</mn></mtd>
</mtr>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mn>2</mn></mtd>
</mtr>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mn>3</mn></mtd>
</mtr>
</mtable>
</mrow>
</math>
</formula>
<formula id-text='mid1' id='uid1' textype='align' type='display'>
<math mode='display' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'>
<mtable displaystyle='true'>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mn>1</mn></mtd>
</mtr>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mn>2</mn></mtd>
</mtr>
<mtr>
<mtd columnalign='right'><mi>L</mi></mtd>
<mtd columnalign='left'><mrow><mn>3</mn>
<mspace width='2.em'/><mi mathvariant='normal'>a</mi><mo>,
</mo><mi mathvariant='normal'>b</mi></mrow></mtd>
</mtr>
</mtable>
</math>
</formula>
This macro is explained in the TeXbook, appendix D; it is provided by the booktabs package.
This command scan a 8-bit integer; it must not be 255 (as this is
a register index, any value less than 1024 is allowed by Tralics). After
that comes filler,
then a {,
then vertical mode material and
finally }
(see scantoks for the
syntax). The { causes TeX to enter internal vertical mode and a
new level of grouping. When the matching } is sensed,
the vertical list is put into an insertion item that is appended to
the current list using [...] that were current in the group just
ended. This insertion item leads ultimately to a page insertion only
if it appears in TeX's main vertical list, so it will have to
.
(Citation from the
TeXbook, Chapter 24).
migrate
there if it starts out in a horizontal list or a math
list. TeX also exercises the page builder, after
an \insert has been appended in vertical mode
The insertion item is formed of the list constructed above, and some parameters, stored in registers indexed by the 8-bit integer. What happens with the content of the box is complicated (the previous paragraphs indicated that it could simply disappear). In fact, this is used to implement footnotes in plain TeX, and floating figures in LaTeX (each pending float uses a different insertion number).
The command \newfam\x allocates a new counter for use with \fam. Since math families are not implemented, the allocator is not implemented either in Tralics. In LaTeX, a family is a \mathgroup and the allocator is \new@mathgroup.
The command \newinsert\x allocates a new slot for use with \insert; if the allocated value is for instance 17, then \count17, \dimen17, \skip17 and \box17 are reserved for this insertion. Since insertions are not implemented, the allocator is not implemented either in Tralics.
The result of \newhelp\foo{my message} is to allocate a new token list register, say 12, make \foo equivalent to \toks12 and put in this token register the command whose name is my message. You can say \errhelp=\foo since \foo has the right type. In case of error, the token register is printed. According to Knuth this saves space (well, in some sense). Unimplemented.
In plain TeX, \displaylines and similar commands start with \openup1\jot. This puts some extra space between the formula and the text that precedes.
This command is similar
to \insert (except that it
does not read an insertion number).
The constructed vertical list goes into an
adjustment item that is appended to the current
list. However, \vadjust is not allowed in vertical
mode. When an adjustment item migrates
from a horizontal list to the vertical list, the vertical list
inside the adjustment item is
(Citation from the
TeXbook, Chapter 24).
unwrapped
and put directly into the
enclosing list
In Tralics, there is no conversion from an horizontal list into a vertical list, so that this command provokes an error. Note that second error may occur while scanning the brace. (see scantoks for the syntax).
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