guraltsev

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   by guraltsev 4y ago

   Before starting to use TeXmacs I tried LyX. It is true that the typesetting is not optimal, as often pointed out by TeXmacs users, but for me that was not a dealbreaker. I found LyX to be extremely un-customizable. TeXmacs has Scheme that a
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   by guraltsev 4y ago

   I recently converted myself to using TeXmacs. I did it because I was constantly getting lost in the minutiae of proofs of a large paper I was working on [1] The WYSIWYG aspect of TeXmacs was crucial for me because I was able to "think
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   by guraltsev 4y ago

   I recently published a paper [1] that I wrote using TeXmacs and then converted to LaTeX before publishing it on arXiv. The conversion was not completely seamless: it took me around 2 hours to tweak it to my liking. However, I feel that I wo
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   by guraltsev 6y ago

   There is a philosophical reason to distinguish forms, manifolds, and integration. When you talk about integrating a form on a manifold you concentrate on the result: the number you obtain. You almost do not notice that the form and the mani