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A quick tour of TeXmacs

A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos
3 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2023
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About this video

A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.

Why it appears in the archive

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

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amichail · 2022-01 · strong rec

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

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amichail · 2021-12 · rec

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

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mgubi · 2023-01 · rec

Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: [VIDEO] and the twitter feed for more examples: [LINK]

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lejalv · 2023-03 · rec

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 -- [VIDEO]

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plafl · 2021-06 · reference

I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: [VIDEO]

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