[OS X TeX] Who should use (La)TeX - who is able to use it?

Thøger Juul Thorsen thoeger at fys.ku.dk
Tue Nov 16 05:07:24 EST 2004


An interesting, though far from perfect, scientific word processor 
hevily inspired by TeX is *Texmacs* (http://www.texmacs.org/), which, 
like LyX, doesn't go with the Mac interface, but has a lot of very 
interesting features.

Bets regards,
Thoeger Thorsen,
Student of astrophysics,
Denmark



Gerben Wierda wrote:

> I think a better GUI WYSIWYG word processor could be done. It could 
> even be partly based on some TeX algorithms. But for instance, try to 
> imagine building formula's in this WYSIWYS editor. How do you put in 
> conceptual things? Because if you don't, you lose the power of the 
> typesetting engine below.
>
> Etc.
>
> G
>
> On 16 Nov 2004, at 03:00, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Yes, it always come to that but it is not an answer.
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 Nov 2004, at 23:06, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Clearly, I wouldn't have been able to be a secretary at the 
>>>> computer science department of your old university.
>>>>
>>>> I am not familiar with the first TeXGInstaller.app but I don't see 
>>>> what would be wrong with such an app as an /alternative/ for those 
>>>> who want, or do not know better
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You are free to build and maintain one.
>>>
>>> G
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