TeXmacs is not based on TeX nor emacs. It is merely inspired by both.
Do you think the doubly misleading name has held back this WYSIWYG scientific editor with quality comparable to TeX/LaTeX for two decades?
Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
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Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#2Yes.
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#3Yes.
I agree. Very probable IMHO.
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#4Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#5> not based on TeX nor emacs
i'd could also see the name implying connection to Mexican food or Macintosh computers.
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#6Wow, yep. I’d heard of it, and due to the name I never even bothered to look at it til seeing this post. Looks like amazing software.
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#7I prefer using TeXstudio as a TeX editor. Naturally, I thought that TeXmacs is the pendant in Emacs.
Up to this point it did not occur to me that TeXmacs is _not_ using TeX at all.
I guess that I am not alone with that thought. Does it use Emacs, then?
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#8I prefer using TeXstudio as a TeX editor. Naturally, I thought that TeXmacs is the pendant in Emacs. Up to this point it did not occur to me that TeXmacs is _not_ using TeX at all. I guess that I am not alone with that thought. Does it use Emacs, then?
It doesn't use emacs either. It is only inspired by it.
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#9One could argue that it is held back by not being based on TeX (depends on how good the export is) and emacs (probably).
Re: Ask HN: Did TeXmacs' doubly misleading name hold it back for 20 years?
#10The name doesn't help, but while it may produce output out of the box that looks as good as LaTeX, the website also doesn't directly answer another question which matters to people who need to do typesetting things with it that have been solved by others: the huge package ecosystem of LaTeX (and the batteries-included distributions like TeX Live).