[OS X TeX] TeXmacs 1.0

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:14 AM, Franck Pastor <franck.pastor at skynet.be> wrote:

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> Le 17 févr. 2013 à 02:04, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
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>> Howdy,
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>> For those of you who wish for some sort of WYSISWYG like interface to LaTeX I jsut saw that GNU TeXmacs is now available. No my cup of tea but please take a look and let me know what you think. Go to <http://www.texmacs.org>. It's under the GNU project license so I may be able to put it into MacTeXtras if fold find it useful.
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>> Good Luck,
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>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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> More precisely: a new version of TeXmacs (1.0.18) is available. TeXmacs itself must be at least ten years old :-)
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> It is not an real interface to (La)TeX since it has its very own typesetting engine. Still, by default it uses TeX fonts and it can import (to some extend) LaTeX code and export (good enough) in LaTeX.
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> Franck Pastor

Howdy,

I now see that they use an xml based file using their own library. They say they can export to LaTeX and you can use LaTeX style commands and environments. I wonder why they call it TeXmacs rather than TeXtmacs? :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)