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TeXmacs is a beautiful piece of software, much better (in my opinion) than TeX. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in TeXmacs, and used it for year
by trombonechamp 7y ago
TeXmacs is a beautiful piece of software, much better (in my opinion) than TeX. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in TeXmacs, and used it for years for keeping a research notebook, for homework assignments during undergrad, and for general note taking. I am delighted to hear that it is still being developed. Thank you to the developers for their hard work!
- pmoriarty 7y agoHow does TeXmacs compare to LaTeX?
- mgubi 7y agoLaTeX is a typesetting system, so usually you use it together with an editor and a viewer. TeXmacs is one program which does it all in such a way that you can edit the typeset document directly and that what you see on the screen is exactly what will be on the final PDF. These features make it unique. Typesetting quality is comparable to TeX in the sense that you can well mistake a TeXmacs document with a LaTeX one. TeXmacs has an integrated picture editor and a presentation mode, and you can have interactive sessions in your document e.g. with software like R, Python, Scheme, Axiom, Reduce, etc... Actually you can even run code inside TeXmacs to produce images with libraries like TikZ/FeynMF/DraTeX/Asymptote/Graphviz whose functionalities have no equivalent (yet) in TeXmacs.
- pmoriarty 7y agoThen why is the grandparent poster comparing TeXmacs to TeX?
- mgubi 7y agoSince he seems to have used it already I also assumed (s)he knew the difference and that with TeX it was meaning a TeX-based workflow. But I wanted to make clear the difference for newcomers since TeXmacs is often misinterpreted as just a TeX frontend, which is not the case.