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A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos · 31.9K views · 2021-06-09 · 3:41

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Overview

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

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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amichail · 2022-01 · Strong recommendation

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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lejalv · 2023-03 · Recommendation

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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mgubi · 2023-01 · Recommendation

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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