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I know the project exists since forever, and has a brand of its own, but whenever I hear about it, my first thought is "oh, latex package/mode for Emacs. Nice".
by tut-urut-utut 5y ago
I know the project exists since forever, and has a brand of its own, but whenever I hear about it, my first thought is "oh, latex package/mode for Emacs. Nice".
The name choice is unfortunate, since I'm not the only one with that association.
- vdhoeven 5y agoYes, the name choice is indeed unfortunate and one of my biggest regrets concerning TeXmacs. But it is difficult to change the name now, because that would imply having to redo a lot of documentation, web pages, videos, etc.
- dginev 5y agoYou ought to consider a name charge seriously, at least for the 3.0 version, in my view. It's hard to estimate how much a name impacts adoption, but it is quite likely people would be reluctant to even try a tool which creates associations that they find unappealing. Switching to some phonetically adjacent name, say TypeMax or SciMacs or ... could be a friendly invitation to a new generation of users to give the platform a spin.