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I was using LyX for homework. To be honest I didn't even know about TeXmacs. So maybe the problem is marketing? laughs Is there a decent LyX TeXmacs comparison
by DaniFong 19y ago
I was using LyX for homework. To be honest I didn't even know about TeXmacs. So maybe the problem is marketing? laughs
Is there a decent LyX TeXmacs comparison? My Google-fu is failing me.
- amichail 19y agoTeXmacs has its own real-time typesetter. So what you see while editing is exactly what gets printed. LyX just has a rough approximation for editing to make it less painful and uses LaTeX/TeX to generate the output. For scientific publications, you may be required to use TeX, so LyX might be preferable there. For homework, there's no reason why you can't use TeXmacs.
- DaniFong 19y agoWow. That sounds much better. I wonder about the underlying technology. I've been longing for an editor that could handle special characters so things looked more like math.
- amichail 19y agoTeXmacs is an incredible achievement. It's probably one of the most sophisticated open source programs ever written. Its main author is a genius.
- DaniFong 19y ago...sudo apt-get...
- DaniFong 19y agoWow. It's really nice. I've noticed that they've decided to make their own decisions as to the menu structure, so there is a bit of a learning curve. But it's so beautiful! I've formatted the YC application we have, and put it in here. It looks really professional. That's quite an achievement, given the conversational language we used. ^^ I then sent the whole thing around as a .tm file, so now the rest of the team has no choice. Viral technology yay!