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A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos · demo · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer toolsGraphic design & typography

What it is

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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “The software is amazing as you can see from this video”

    Shows TeXmacs capabilities

    amichail, 2022-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?”

  2. “See here a short video describing its features”

    Short overview of TeXmacs features

    mgubi, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]”

  3. “you may want to check out what it can do”

    Demo of programmable interactive typesetter

    lejalv, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: texmacs, wysiwyg, latex alternative, math typesetting, scientific writing

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