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GNU T_EX_MACS (alternatively, TeXmacs) is a free scientific word processor component of the GNU project, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hoeven. The program allows you to write structured documents via a user-friendly WYSIWYG interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help the user to produce professional looking documents. Download high resolution version (808x631, 106 KB)Screenshot of TeXmacs This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software. ... Download high resolution version (808x631, 106 KB)Screenshot of TeXmacs This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software. ... Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat. ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a free software operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system tools, compilers and many end-user applications. ... The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... This article is about the text editor. ... A document contains information. ... User-friendly is a term often used to describe software and other technologies. ... ÁWYSIWYG (pronounced //), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Flowcharts are often used to represent algorithms. ... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically generated formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface for a number of computer algebra systems including Maxima. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, so that the user may customize the interface and write his own extensions to the program. In mathematics and in the sciences, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically (as in a mathematical or chemical formula), or a general relationship between quantities. ... An interface defines the communication boundary between separate computer components. ... A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. ... For other uses of Maxima, see Maxima (disambiguation). ... Guile is the GNU Projects implementation of the Scheme programming language. ... Scheme is a functional programming language and a dialect of Lisp. ...

TeXmacs currently runs on most Unix-based architectures, including GNU/Linux, Cygwin for Microsoft Windows and Fink for Mac OS X. Moreover, a native port exists for Microsoft Windows. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX, and they are under development for HTML/MathML/XML. TeXmacs also features a presentation mode and it is planned to evolve towards a complete scientific office suite, with spreadsheet capacities and a technical drawing editor. Unix systems filiation. ... Cygwin is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act somewhat like a Unix system. ... As of 2006, Microsoft Windows is the worlds most common operating system for use on personal computers. ... In computing, the Fink project is an effort to port popular Unix programs to Mac OS X. Fink uses the Debian package management system, apt, as well as its own frontend program, fink (which is implemented as a set of Perl modules). ... Mac OS X is a proprietary operating system developed and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. ... As of 2006, Microsoft Windows is the worlds most common operating system for use on personal computers. ... The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ... An excerpt of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ... Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is an application of XML for representing mathematical symbols and formulae, aimed at integrating them into World Wide Web documents. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... A presentation program is a computer software package used to give presentations, normally in the form of a slide show. They typically include three major functions, the slide show system to display content in a linear fashion, an editor that allows text to be moved around en-mass from slide... In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office application suite, productivity suite, offimatic suite or integrated offimatic program, is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... An example of a technical drawing with orthographic and isometric view. ...

Philosophy

In a similar way as documents with a high typesetting quality should allow readers to focus on content rather than typesetting details, the philosophy behind TeXmacs is that a good editor should allow authors to focus on what they write rather than syntactic details. However, the drawback of classical WYSIWYG editors like Word is that they encourage authors to format their documents in a visual rather than a logical way. The originality of the TeXmacs project is to provide a WYSIWYG editor that makes it possible and natural to write structured texts. Moreover, the typesetting quality is not sacrificed and similar to what you would obtain with TeX. In order to obtain a reasonably interactive typesetting speed, this last point required the implementation of a new typesetting engine. Therefore, TeXmacs is not a front-end to LaTeX. The TeX mascot, by Duane Bibby ΤΕΧ, written as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ...

See also

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External links

• Home page of GNU T_EX_MACS