mgubi

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by mgubi 7mo ago
I’m using it since 2006 and it is both quite stable and speedier than any alternative.
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by mgubi 7mo ago
The website is also written with TeXmacs
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by mgubi 7mo ago
this is plainly inaccurate. most people only use very few packages, which exists only for legacy reasons, they should be really integrated. TeXmacs provide all things 90% of people need.
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by mgubi 7mo ago
ChatGPT can write TeXmacs documents :)
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by mgubi 7mo ago
It is used regularly to write academic papers (examples here < https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/publs.html >) and thesis, examples here: < https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree
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by mgubi 4y ago
Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H46ON2FB30U and the twitter feed for more examples: https://twitter.com/gnu_texm
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by mgubi 4y ago
"here are WYSIWYG editors for TeX as well." not there are not. Apart from TeXmacs I know of no editor which give you on the screen the same result you get on the paper. LyX has not such a feature. If an approximation is ok, then f
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by mgubi 4y ago
you can check also the manual which comes with the program, in the menu Help->Manuals.
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by mgubi 4y ago
In my mathematics is \d x .
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by mgubi 4y ago
TeXmacs has its own macro language. The equivalent of \newcommand is \assign together with \macro (yes, TeXmacs has proper first class macros, like any respectable language, e.g. Lisp). And macros arguments can be edited visually, here&#x27
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by mgubi 4y ago
looking at some other comments in this thread and also to my experience, it not unnecessary clarification in the large. I'm glad you just were doing some humor. :)
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by mgubi 4y ago
The phrase "it uses LaTeX" means that it runs the program LaTeX or that it need the "LaTeX format". Neither is true. Similarly you would say that "PanDoc uses Word?" or that a program that export to Word use Wo
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by mgubi 4y ago
You can give a look at TeXmacs' twitter account for example of what it can do: https://twitter.com/gnu_texmacs
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by mgubi 4y ago
Not to mention JavaScript, then :)
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by mgubi 4y ago
I would really like to have names of packages you use regularly and you think you will miss in any other system. I can think only of TikZ, and again, for targeted purposes like DSL you can always ask TeXmacs to run LaTeX and get the output.
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by mgubi 4y ago
You can just pick the AppImage if you like Linux. No installation needed. If you are on Mac, then you just need to give permission to run the software, it is not a specific problem of TeXmacs, it happens because TeXmacs executable are not s
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by mgubi 4y ago
it is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H46ON2FB30U
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by mgubi 4y ago
This is not our experience as TeXmacs users. 90% of the time you are always using the same features, which are well implemented in TeXmacs. Maybe you can show me some of your documents which require TeX, so that I can understand the uses ca
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by mgubi 4y ago
I'm not sure what are you referring to. TeXmacs is used everyday by many people, at lest 3/4 of my students wrote their PhD thesis with it, some of them enterely, other the initial draft. All my papers are written with it, lecture
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by mgubi 4y ago
TeX 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 d
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by mgubi 4y ago
It is not clear what this comment would like to add. The presupposition that no other software can equal or surpass some magic powers of TeX/LaTeX has nothing to do with technical merit. Indeed I guess most users cannot distinguish a
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by mgubi 4y ago
It is cross-platform, distributed for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. There is a port for Haiku (not maintained, but working). And you can find also AppImages from one of the developers, but not on the official page. Also you can try Mogan whic
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by mgubi 4y ago
I'm not sure which kind of limitations you are referring to. In my experience the only kind of things I cannot replicate with TeXmacs are variable width paragraphs to follows an arbitrary shape around an image. TeXmacs can do multi-col
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by mgubi 4y ago
I use it for anything going from lecture notes, personal notes and plans, letters with university heading, presentations, cv. Some CV examples can be found here: https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree/main&#
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by mgubi 4y ago
TeXmacs is more mature than SILE, or any other recent attempt to alternative typesetting engine. It exists since the '90 while SILE seems to be around since 2015. And TeXmacs is a complex and complete piece of software which includes a
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by mgubi 4y ago
It has been an unfortunate decision. Once in a while the community discuss to change the name, but no convincing proposal have emerged. On the other hand I really hear very few people complaining about JavaScript. So I guess, the name is no
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by mgubi 4y ago
webasm do not have access to the OS, one need to specialise TeXmacs to work better in the browser. For the moment this is just an early experiment which shows some hope.
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by mgubi 4y ago
I collected here: https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/art-of-math-writing.htm... some of my reflections about mathematical writing and in particular about the reasons I choose TeXmacs as my tool of choice. It mig
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by mgubi 4y ago
LyX is good but the quality of the typesetter is not. Early on, when looking for a replacement for my TeX workflow I was taken back by the rendering. It improved lately, but still TeXmacs is a superior tecnology which renders onscreen exact
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by mgubi 4y ago
I write all my papers with it since few years, and my lecture notes, and my talks. The papers are converted to LaTeX when sending to the publisher. Several of my PhD students used it to write their thesis. Also some Master students. Some po

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