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A quick tour of TeXmacs

32K views · Jun 9, 2021 · 3:41 · 3 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2021–2023

A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.

Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as the quickest way to see what TeXmacs can do, as a WYSIWYG alternative to LaTeX.

“See here a short video describing its features”HN comment, 2023

What Hacker News said 5

Strongly recommendsamichailJan 2022

“The software is amazing as you can see from this video”

Shows TeXmacs capabilities

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I'm not a TeXmacs developer but I am a fan. The software is amazing as you can see from this video: this video

in “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?” · view on HN
RecommendsamichailDec 2021

“Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs?”

Demo of WYSIWYG TeXmacs editor

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Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs? (It's not based on TeX nor emacs but is inspired by both.) See: this video

in “LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes” · view on HN
RecommendsmgubiJan 2023

“See here a short video describing its features”

Short overview of TeXmacs features

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Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: this video and the twitter feed for more examples: link

in “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]” · view on HN
RecommendslejalvMar 2023

“you may want to check out what it can do”

Demo of programmable interactive typesetter

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Not really what you asked for -- but there is an interactive modern typesetter that is programmable and works on trees. It's called TeXmacs - you may want to check out what it can do -- this video

in “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support” · view on HN
Cites itplaflJun 2021

“The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs”

Demo of TeXmacs as integrated technical editor

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I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: this video

in “Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy” · view on HN