amichailJan 2022Strongly recommends
I'm not a TeXmacs developer but I am a fan. The software is amazing as you can see from this video: ▶ this video
in “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?” · View on HN
A quick tour of TeXmacs
A quick tour of TeXmacs on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 4 separate months, 2021–2023.
TeXmacs Videos
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A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the quickest way to see what TeXmacs can do, as a WYSIWYG alternative to LaTeX.
- people recommended it
- 3
- separate months
- 4
- strong recommendations
- 1
- discussed on HN
- 2021–2023
“See here a short video describing its features”
What HN commenters said
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
lejalvMar 2023Recommends
Not really what you asked for -- but there is an interactive modern typesetter that is programmable and works on trees. It's called TeXmacs - you may want to check out what it can do -- ▶ this video
in “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support” · View on HN
mgubiJan 2023Recommends
Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: ▶ this video and the twitter feed for more examples: [link]
in “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]” · View on HN
amichailDec 2021Recommends
Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs? (It's not based on TeX nor emacs but is inspired by both.) See: ▶ this video
in “LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes” · View on HN
plaflJun 2021Cites it
I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: ▶ this video
in “Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy” · View on HN
Topics & tags
Testing, debugging & developer toolsGraphic design & typographytexmacswysiwyglatex alternativemath typesettingscientific writing