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A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos3 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2021–2023
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A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.

Recommended as the quickest way to see what TeXmacs can do, as a WYSIWYG alternative to LaTeX.

5 comments from Hacker News

@amichail2022-01 · in “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?”

I'm not a TeXmacs developer but I am a fan. The software is amazing as you can see from this video: ▶ this video

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@lejalv2023-03 · in “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support”

Not really what you asked for -- but there is an interactive modern typesetter that is programmable and works on trees. It's called TeXmacs - you may want to check out what it can do -- ▶ this video

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@mgubi2023-01 · in “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]”

Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: ▶ this video and the twitter feed for more examples: link

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@amichail2021-12 · in “LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes”

Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs? (It's not based on TeX nor emacs but is inspired by both.) See: ▶ this video

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@plafl2021-06 · in “Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy”

I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: ▶ this video