A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
32K views · demo · evergreen · Uploaded 2021-06-09

A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.

Recommended as the quickest way to see what TeXmacs can do, as a WYSIWYG alternative to LaTeX.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@plafl2021 · in “Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy”

I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: [VIDEO]

@amichail2021 · in “LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes”

Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs? (It's not based on TeX nor emacs but is inspired by both.) See: [VIDEO]

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@amichail2022 · in “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?”

I'm not a TeXmacs developer but I am a fan. The software is amazing as you can see from this video: [VIDEO]

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@mgubi2023 · in “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]”

Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: [VIDEO] and the twitter feed for more examples: [LINK]

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@lejalv2023 · in “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support”

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 -- [VIDEO]

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