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mgubi

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    Comment #47188180

    I’m using it since 2006 and it is both quite stable and speedier than any alternative.

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    Comment #47188157

    The website is also written with TeXmacs

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    Comment #47165784

    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…

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    Comment #47165770

    ChatGPT can write TeXmacs documents :)

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    Comment #47158596

    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/ma…

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    Comment #34425000

    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: h…

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    Comment #34301999

    "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…

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    Comment #34300416

    you can check also the manual which comes with the program, in the menu Help->Manuals.

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    Comment #34300400

    In my mathematics is \d x .

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    Comment #34300397

    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. L…

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    Comment #34189467

    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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    Comment #34187845

    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 prog…

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    Comment #34186145

    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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    Comment #34186133

    Not to mention JavaScript, then :)

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    Comment #34186124

    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…

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    Comment #34185746

    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…

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    Comment #34185601

    it is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H46ON2FB30U

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    Comment #34185591

    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 docum…

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    Comment #34185535

    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…

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    Comment #34185484

    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 P…

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    Comment #34183541

    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 …

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    Comment #34183499

    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 developer…

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    Comment #34183486

    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 ar…

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    Comment #34183447

    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…

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    Comment #34180257

    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 …