Cleaning up TeXmacs LaTeX export

Question

I recently found TeXmacs, and I find it excellent for quick note taking (for me, typing LaTeX is much too slow and messy for that). One of the reasons why I'm hoping TeXmacs will be useful for this is that it seems to have pretty decent LaTeX export. But it's not perfect. This question is about how to clean up the LaTeX exported by TeXmacs to make it suitable for sending to collaborators and submitting to journals.

There are really two main difficulties I found:

1. In math mode, instead of $f(x)$, TeXmacs loves to produce $f ( x)$. This example is trivial, but with complex formulae all those extra spaces around the first bracket make things unreadable enough that I can't send the document like this to collaborators. Take for example something like \frac{d^2}{d x^2} \ln f ( x) = \frac{f'' ( x)}{f ( x)} - \frac{f' ( x)^2}{f ( x)^2}

2. Instead of the usual \textbf, \emph, etc., TeXmacs produces \tmtextbf, \tmtexit, etc. with definitions such as \newcommand{\tmtextbf}[1]{{\bfseries{#1}}}. This can be good, as it's customizable, but in a simple document that doesn't use much more formatting than this it'd be better to have just the standard \textbf, etc. Is there a way to easily expand these?

3. Where I'd write i.e.\ something in LaTeX, I get {\tmabbr{i.e.}} something. Again, is there an easy way to fix this?

Does anyone here use TeXmacs to produce LaTeX? If yes, do you post-process the output? How?

Is it possible to (easily) configure TeXmacs to produce LaTeX that's more suitable for my needs? Or are there tools for post processing TeXmacs output?

Answer 1

It seems I found most of the answers:

For point 1., upgrade to TeXmacs 1.0.7.19 (I had 1.0.7.17).

For points 2. and 3., go to Preferences -> Convert -> LaTeX and disable "Allow macro definitions in preamble." Also, when writing, use emphasized instead of of italicized text (they look the same but apparently are not the same in TeXmacs). I've yet to figure out how to have a convenient shortcut key for emphasis (F5 is not...), how to auto-convert all italics to emphasized text, or how to tell the difference between them (TeXmacs is WYSIWYG).