GNU Texmacs

https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

49•remywang•2h ago

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bombcar•1h ago

The name is TeXmacs - but "Notice that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX." I wonder why they chose that name.

haunter•1h ago

Neither on emacs and nor it’s a Mac first app. Probably the most misleading app name ever.

munk-a•1h ago

It isn't compatible with TeX/LaTeX but it does serve the same purpose (and converters are available). I don't disagree it's a weak name, though. The naming implies some sort of rich LaTeX editor plugin for emacs - I need Mike Meyers to leap out and say "Texmacs is neither LaTeX nor Emacs - discuss."

lo_zamoyski•55m ago

Perhaps it's like "Javascript", trading on association rather than on substance.

krupan•1h ago

Such a weird project, starting with the weird name that sets all kinds of wrong expectations

mghackerlady•1h ago

I love TeXmacs so much I just use it as a regular word processor

wbolt•1h ago

Are there any „real world users” of this? During all my years in academia I haven’t met any. Most just use plain LaTeX. Some do MS Word. Rarely something else. Never Texmacs. This is my experience at least.

With stuff like Overleaf and plugins for modern IDEs, honestly I can’t say LaTeX is a bad experience. It does what it should.

rustyhancock•55m ago

The name alone is hilarious bad.

I'd never heard of it but when I saw the title of this post I practically tripped over myself to click it. Latex and Emacs! From GNU!! How have I not heard of it?

A few lines in to the page. Oh it's nothing to do with either of latex or Emacs.

alpaca128•11m ago

Just days ago I had a similar experience with GNU gperf. No, it has nothing to do with the profiler on Linux and perf doesn't stand for performance. It's for generating perfect hashmaps.

bjobjobjo•13m ago

I used this for note taking in class at my university during a few years. Typing math in TeXmacs felt much quicker than LaTeX, enough so that I was able to keep up with the lecturer's writing on the blackboard.

gudzpoz•48m ago

You can try TeXmacs in your browser at https://yufeng-shen.github.io/Mogan.html . (It's actually from a fork of TeXmacs called Mogan, of which I've been a happy user due to better CJK support.)

By the way, I do think TeXmacs is an Emacsen as it provides Guile/Scheme as an extension language, though I don't know how customizable it is. (I think the built-in REPLs for Python/Maxima/Scheme/... are written in Scheme.) And then, it does support quite some TeX commands (and you input them by pressing backslash followed by their command name), so I do think their "TeXmacs" name is very much justified.

algorithm314•48m ago

There is also a fork of TeXmacs called Mogan https://github.com/MoganLab/mogan

remywang•39m ago

What was the main motivation for the fork? Looks like texmacs itself is still actively maintained: https://github.com/texmacs/texmacs

mghackerlady•10m ago

Better cjk support I think?

egorelik•32m ago

Early on in my computing life, I discovered TeXmacs as a user interface for a Computer Algebra System I had been playing with called Axiom. Ironically, this was before I had ever even heard of either TeX or Emacs! It seemed like a cool piece of software, but when I later learned LaTeX I discovered I prefer non-WYSIWYG for everything but lecture notes. Still, in the years since I've recognized that this setup, combining a math engine with a rich display interface, was an early version of what would later be popularized as Notebooks.