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TeXmacs is awesome, I used it in grad school to take notes during QFT lectures and I could follow along because the shortcuts are just so intuitive if you alrea

TeXmacs is awesome, I used it in grad school to take notes during QFT lectures and I could follow along because the shortcuts are just so intuitive if you already know latex: for example in math mode, ^ enters superscript, _ enters subscript, you can access greek letters by tab completion from the roman alphabet characters like \alpha is a+tab, \delta is d+tab, \Delta is D+tab (capital D tab). It's awesome, although a little buggy in the less used bits like the graphics maker. Still, it has a load of potential, it just needs a little more love (developers and money I suppose). EDIT: little tidbit, much like the online org-mode manual, judging by the typeface and the color of the hyperlinks, I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html.

omaranto 6y ago
> EDIT: little tidbit, much like the online org-mode manual, judging by the typeface and the color of the hyperlinks, I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html. Even more than the typeface and the hyperlink color, I found this to be a give away :P "Figure 1. This article has been written in TeXmacs. The image shows the article being drafted and the management of the figures within the program."
- mgubi 6y ago
  I'm sorry you do not like it. Actually is borderline for me too. But I didn't resisted...
  - omaranto 6y ago
    Did you reply to the wrong comment?
    - mgubi 6y ago
      I do not think so. I understood you didn't liked the Figure comment (and maybe the figure itself)?
      - omaranto 6y ago
        Ah! No, no, that's not what I meant at all. User noobermin guessed that the web page was written in TeXmacs and exported to HTML by analyzing subtle hints such as the typeface and the color of the links. I pointed out that of you actually read the article there is no need to interpret these clues, since the article plainly and explicitly states it was written in TeXmacs and exported to HTML! Does that clear things up?
        mgubi 6y ago
        Yes it does. I didn't got the phrasing right. Sorry! Anyway my comment is valid, I was not really sure if I should keep the recursive picture or not. But I didn't resisted...
dash2 6y ago
I used it in 2006-7 while at grad school. The tab-completion was indeed awesome, it's just so intuitive. Find the key that's close to what you want, then hit tab until it gets what you want. I ended up using LyX because it was a bit faster and better supported, but I wish they would learn from this interface.
mgubi 6y ago
> I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html. you won. Actually as I wrote in another comment all the TeXmacs website, the blog in which the article appears, the web page of the main developer and some other websites are completely generated within TeXmacs with no assistance whatsoever from external static site generators. The content can be edited directly in TeXmacs and the hyperlinks works connecting the TeXmacs documents, so you can navigate and edit the website from within the program. This workflow has some advantages and some users adopted it for their own blogs (https://plopezadeva.com https://plopezadeva.com). If you strive for minimialism (with a touch of style) I can see hardly how you can more minimal. If you do not like the colors you can always change them. The typeface and the colors are defined in CSS, so you can provide those of your likings. For more fancy workflows a user developed a Markdown converted so that he can write his articles in TeXmacs and then use them with Hugo (here the result https://paperwhy.8027.org https://paperwhy.8027.org) The graphics editor was buggy, but I find quite stable now. Lately it never blow in my face and if a speaker is writing on a blackboard I can essentially copy his drawings. If I'm lecturing on Zoom I usually use the graphics editor to illustrate some ideas ( see some examples here https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/einf-wahr-ws2021/wt-ws2120-script-12.pdf https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/... , note that this is the actual script of the lecture, written online and not postprocessed )

omaranto 6y ago

> EDIT: little tidbit, much like the online org-mode manual, judging by the typeface and the color of the hyperlinks, I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html. Even more than the typeface and the hyperlink color, I found this to be a give away :P "Figure 1. This article has been written in TeXmacs. The image shows the article being drafted and the management of the figures within the program."

mgubi 6y ago
I'm sorry you do not like it. Actually is borderline for me too. But I didn't resisted...
- omaranto 6y ago
  Did you reply to the wrong comment?
  - mgubi 6y ago
    I do not think so. I understood you didn't liked the Figure comment (and maybe the figure itself)?
    - omaranto 6y ago
      Ah! No, no, that's not what I meant at all. User noobermin guessed that the web page was written in TeXmacs and exported to HTML by analyzing subtle hints such as the typeface and the color of the links. I pointed out that of you actually read the article there is no need to interpret these clues, since the article plainly and explicitly states it was written in TeXmacs and exported to HTML! Does that clear things up?
      - mgubi 6y ago
        Yes it does. I didn't got the phrasing right. Sorry! Anyway my comment is valid, I was not really sure if I should keep the recursive picture or not. But I didn't resisted...

dash2 6y ago

I used it in 2006-7 while at grad school. The tab-completion was indeed awesome, it's just so intuitive. Find the key that's close to what you want, then hit tab until it gets what you want. I ended up using LyX because it was a bit faster and better supported, but I wish they would learn from this interface.

mgubi 6y ago

> I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html. you won. Actually as I wrote in another comment all the TeXmacs website, the blog in which the article appears, the web page of the main developer and some other websites are completely generated within TeXmacs with no assistance whatsoever from external static site generators. The content can be edited directly in TeXmacs and the hyperlinks works connecting the TeXmacs documents, so you can navigate and edit the website from within the program. This workflow has some advantages and some users adopted it for their own blogs (https://plopezadeva.com https://plopezadeva.com). If you strive for minimialism (with a touch of style) I can see hardly how you can more minimal. If you do not like the colors you can always change them. The typeface and the colors are defined in CSS, so you can provide those of your likings. For more fancy workflows a user developed a Markdown converted so that he can write his articles in TeXmacs and then use them with Hugo (here the result https://paperwhy.8027.org https://paperwhy.8027.org) The graphics editor was buggy, but I find quite stable now. Lately it never blow in my face and if a speaker is writing on a blackboard I can essentially copy his drawings. If I'm lecturing on Zoom I usually use the graphics editor to illustrate some ideas ( see some examples here https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/einf-wahr-ws2021/wt-ws2120-script-12.pdf https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/... , note that this is the actual script of the lecture, written online and not postprocessed )