Comments for GNU TeXmacs
Re: Port to (gasp) Windows?
It runs perfectly well on windows with cygwin with X-11 and is included as an option in the cygwin installer.
> I love the plug-in capability to use
> TeXmacs with Cycas and other CAS
> utilities, as this fills neatly the void
> of a GPL Math program that can be used
> for both computation and presentation (a
> huge time waster). However, as has yet
> to be destablished, MS is the mainstay,
> and a windows port would be FANTASTIC!
> Any plans to do that?
Re: Project Website
> I really like the look of the TexMacs' website. I was surprised to see that
> the meta tag said it was generated in TexMacs, but saw in the FAQ that you do
> export your TexMacs documents to generate the website. That's exciting
> to me for making web pages with MathML. However, I noticed many errors when I
> entered the website address in validator.w3.org/. Might that
> suggest that the export to HTML needs work?
Sure, there may be some bugs. Any help in order to correct them would be helpful.
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Project Website
I really like the look of the TexMacs' website. I was surprised to see that the meta tag said it was generated in TexMacs, but saw in the FAQ that you do export your TexMacs documents to generate the website. That's exciting to me for making web pages with MathML. However, I noticed many errors when I entered the website address in validator.w3.org/. Might that suggest that the export to HTML needs work?
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Re: Port to (gasp) Windows?
> a windows port would be FANTASTIC! Any plans to do that?
We are working on that; see www.texmacs.org/tmweb/... for an alpha-version.
Port to (gasp) Windows?
I love the plug-in capability to use TeXmacs with Cycas and other CAS utilities, as this fills neatly the void of a GPL Math program that can be used for both computation and presentation (a huge time waster). However, as has yet to be destablished, MS is the mainstay, and a windows port would be FANTASTIC! Any plans to do that?
Name is misleading
Great program! I've been looking for such a text editor ever since I got a computer. It's really a pleasure writing stuff in Texmacs, and it makes huge programs like Word obsolete IMHO.
I think the name is a bit misleading though. It has nothing to do with emacs. Being a vi user myself, I was at first scared to download and try texmacs. :)
How about TeXditor or TeXuthor?
Nice job!
I'm a long time user of tex and latex. I'm impressed with what they've managed to do with TeXmacs. Keep up the good work!
Re: Not much point in there
I think TeXmacs has its points. I find TeXmacs is a good choice for my editor for its combination of both the idea of TeX and wysiwyg. Actually, without TeXmacs, I'm considering to write one for myself. There is no omnipotent editor that can satisfy everybody. But TeXmacs is a valuable project.
There are still some problems in it, like the page partition algorithm. I hope it will be better and better.
Re: Port to (gasp) Windows?
>It runs perfectly well on windows with cygwin with X-11 and is included as an
>option in the cygwin installer.
It RAN perfectly well on Windows, but... Unfortunately, any support for Windows appears to have ceased (not only native but also cygwin version), and my impression is that TeXmacs on Windows effectively can be considered dead. The best sign of this is perhaps the install instructions www.texmacs.org/tmweb/... . It gives the catastrophic recommendation to install the "CygTeXmacs.zip" package as the best method - after doing this your whole Cygwin installation will be irrepairably and thoroughly broken, and you could as well reformat your disk and reinstall. If you instead use the other suggestion to install from the Cygwin package, you receive an old (1.0.6) version with a broken PDF interface. (This is broken because it uses an outdated version of another Cygwin module.) The links to install instructions on www.texmacs.org/tmweb/... point to non-existing pages. The instructions for installation says you MUST NOT install the ghostscript package (suppose I need this for other purposes?), and refers to a number of obsolete cygwin packages which must be installed, etc.
I think TeXmacs is an absolutely wonderful program, but installation is such a hassle, and the Windows version seems to be very much out of favor, so I believe that TeXmacs for Windows now basically has reached its end of life. The most serious problem is that if you try to install TeXmacs on your machoine, with high probability, you risk breaking many other important programs. If you REALLY want to run TeXmacs under Windows, you had better run a separate Windows under VMware (but then you could as well run Linux where TeXmacs is much more stable).
It is a pity on such a great program!