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It's really hard to say. Producing documents for publication is a big part of the reason for using software like TeX, both because of its capabilities and requ
by II2II 4y ago
It's really hard to say.
Producing documents for publication is a big part of the reason for using software like TeX, both because of its capabilities and requirements of the publisher. Given the audience of TeXmacs appears similar to that of TeX, in terms of capabilities but not the requirements of publishers, it was not terribly appealing to a wide audience and a significant factor holding it back for its specialized audience.
That said, the name did encourage me to at least look at it back in my university days (a very long time ago). When I found that it was not a front-end for TeX, I simply moved on.
- amichail 4y agoWhat about for producing documents not for publication such as writing up assignments, lecture notes, personal/research notes, etc.?
- GiovanniP 4y agoAnd slide presentations.
- mgubi 4y agoTeX is a typesetting language. Like Postscript. There is no particular reasons humans need to write it. That is the reason LaTeX was invented (and Context). We need formats, like PDF or HTML, to exchange and reliably use informations and describe documents. TeXmacs is a document preparation system from the UI to all the other things needed, in one place, in a uniform architecture. It has its own internal format and it exports to TeX/LaTeX as it can export to HTML or PDF. Publishers do not need TeX to store documents, indeed TeX is no a particularly good way to store data. It is what it is: a typesetting language, not a document description format. So I do not see any conflicts between using TeXmacs and then sending a TeX file to the editor. Anyway in most of the cases them (or nowadays most likely you) need to reformat it to the standards of the particular journal. I (and many others, including the main author of TeXmacs) work in academia and I have no problem using TeXmacs everyday to do my work and then send to the publisher a nice LaTeX file, which I do not have to edit by hand. I'm (mostly) TeX/LaTeX free since 2006 and very happy about this.