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by GiovanniP 5y ago
> does pretty poorly at importing LaTeX As far as I know, an importer that interprets arbitrary LaTeX cannot exist (i.e. you have to run LaTeX on the file) because the grammar of LaTeX documents is Turing-complete. There is a StackExch
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
It will take a bit. I think that there are good points in switching document preparation system. Differently from LaTeX, TeXmacs can be programmed in a sensible way (it uses Scheme), and differently from Word you have access to the source.
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
> We need an open source alternative to https://www.princexml.com/samples/ TeXmacs: https://www.texmacs.org As far as I know e.g. this book https://www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/4
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
I got curious, downloaded the source, compiled with LaTeX and, separately, imported the source file in TeXmacs. Perhaps there are a few points in which TeXmacs' import can be improved immediately (other things seem a bit more complex).
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
Another good reason IMO (3) another implementation of the conversion may be a useful reference/point of comparison
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
https://www.mathcha.io/editor is closer to the idea of TeXmacs (editing the typeset document, not the source)
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
The export filter allows one to work in my opinion (I used it a bit, I picked up feelings from discussions of others). The import filter is limited (I have read that any LaTeX import filter is limited because of LaTeX's grammar), and i
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
There is always the possibility to switch to source; there is a menu item in the editor (Document->Source->Edit source tree), and when examining source the editor becomes a structure editor (this enforces syntax as far as I understand
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
The previous version was 1.99.21 :-) 2.1 does not introduce new features with respect to 1.99.21, the software has been gradually refined with new features and bug fixes along the whole 1.99.x series of releases I think (I am following it s
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
TeXmacs ( https://www.texmacs.org/ ), which is a document preparation system, may be taken into consideration as a word processor too; its main editing mode is WYSIWYG and its operation by default can be menu-driven.
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
Try TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org), which, despite the name would make one think that it descends from TeX and Emacs, is related to TeX only for the typographical quality and to Emacs for the extensibility. It has the ease of use of a word proce
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
For the readability of HTML exported by TeXmacs, please take a look yourself at the html files in https://github.com/texmacs/notes/tree/main/docs I think that the developers would be happy to hear any co
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
Please see http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/does-the-r-plugin-work/434/2 (you maybe have figured it out on your own). I tried the solution with R_LIBS_USER=~/.local/lib/R, and despite still an error b
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
According to Joris van der Hoeven "... it has become clear over time that this choice of name was one of the biggest mistakes of the project. Indeed, the name incorrectly suggests that TeXmacs is some kind of interface to (La)TeX.&quot
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
> I think a happy medium would be if you could export snippets of latex from a larger texmacs doc but I haven't actually tried it. In the TeXmacs editor Edit->Copy to->LaTeX (one might have to add some macro definitions in the
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
> I just ignore the entire TeX-Editor landscape TeXmacs is not a TeX-editor, it is an independent program. The word "TeX" is in the name because one of the ambitions of the program is to inherit the typographic excellence of Te
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
I have tried it now on Xubuntu 20.10 and there is a bug. I have asked here if anyone knows how to fix it: http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/does-the-r-plugin-work/434
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by GiovanniP 5y ago
Perhaps a support software to guide the writing of both the TeXmacs and the LaTeX versions of a document so that conversion is straightforward, and therefore easier to make it readable for the converter, might be useful (see discussion at
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
After this post, the developers became aware that there is an open issue for that and responded at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828124 I hope that will help to bring the development forward.
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
In case, for Linux I am using their static binary, if I recall correctly the Ubuntu package wanted to change my Guile to 1.8 and this wasn't ok for me. I have learnt today that Fedora has it in the repositories. The Windows installer w
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
In addition to the ones I have already given, here is another source of information about TeXmacs: https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/main.html
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
I agree that some communication from the TeXmacs developers to the Fedora ones would be helpful (I documented myself, Fedora is using Guile 2 and still supporting 1.8 with a compatibility package). (More about the Scheme in TeXmacs later).
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
> I think that we desperately need some modern language for document preparation See my comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26498409 :-)
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
Take a look at TeXmacs ( http://www.texmacs.org ) (does not share code with TeX, only the name recalls it!). It is at the same time structured and WYSIWYG (having accessible text source), completely programmable (user-defined nati
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
TeXmacs can export formulae in MathJax format--there is a setting for that; I have been able to copy formulae to the clipboard (using right-click -> Copy to Clipboard, not by selecting) obtaining what seemed to me the correct LaTeX code.
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by GiovanniP 6y ago
It can be configured to.
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by GiovanniP 7y ago
For interested people: there is at the moment a proposal for a StackExchange website https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121978/texmacs Especially upvotes to questions are important, as enough people have j
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by GiovanniP 7y ago
Let's add also: as a software system (that is independent from TeX), TeXmacs is programmable on its own (using Scheme). Of course if you want to add functionalities to LyX you have to do it in the LyX way (and possibly in the TeX way).
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