"Turn" TeXmacs: A Real "WYSIWYG" typesetting system

TeXmacs: A truly "WYSIWYG" typesetting system

Long time no recommendation of their favorite software, and now recommend a I do math homework in the United States Private magic Weapon: TeXmacs. I'm afraid I can't possibly write a lengthy TeXmacs document with Bambo, but it's so easy to use, so I don't have to write any documents. Given that there are very few people who know, there are a lot of people who don't understand it, just help it advertise and hang up.

The main features of TeXmacs are:

• Unlike Lyx, it is not a "front-end" of Tex, but rather a completely independent system that transcends Tex. TeXmacs has the same or even better typography as TeX. This is because it uses TeX-like typesetting algorithms and is re-implemented in C + +. It is said that the paging algorithm is better than TeX.

• Have a true "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) that goes beyond word (or any word processing software). What Word so-called "WYSIWYG" is actually false. What you see is what you get, which is what's on the screen, exactly as it was printed. But can Word do it? When you print a document, you find that it is very different from what is displayed on the screen, which is generally more coarse on the screen. Some of TeX's front ends, such as Lyx, scientific Workspace and so on, are similar, and they all fail to achieve what is truly WYSIWYG.

• You can draw directly from a screen document. Fully visualized table, formula editing environment. These are much more convenient and efficient ways than TeX. Be careful, after TeXmacs a period of time, you will find that the formula editing method back to TeX is just like returning to primitive society.

• Very user-friendly button design. For example, in the mathematical formula environment, you press any one character, and then you can use multiple TAB key successively select the "topological Same" character. For example, if you press @ and then press a few more tabs, you'll see that the character becomes a variety of circle-shaped characters. If you press the button, and then press =, a greater than equals sign appears, and then you press TAB, and then a variety of variants that are greater than or equal will appear successively.

• Without losing control of the underlying structure while being intuitive. For example, (see) The status bar at the bottom right of the window, which shows the "context" of the current cursor position is "proof eqnarry*", which means that this is the beginning of the coordinates of Eqnarry in a proof environment. When you use Ctrl-backspace, the "environment" closest to the cursor will be deleted. For example, if your current font is italic, the font will revert to traditional immediately after ctrl-backspace.

• Structured browsing capabilities. For example, by pressing Ctrl-pgup, CTRL-PGDN can jump up and down in the "same type" structure. For example, if you press this key in the section header, you can quickly browse through all the section headings. If you press this key in a mathematical formula, you can quickly navigate through all the mathematical formulas.

• interface with the interactive program. Support many kinds of computer algebra system, and interactive software, such as Maxima,octave, ... The mathematical formulas returned by these systems will be displayed directly as "TeX effect" by TeXmacs. Scheme is used as the embedded language, and it can be used to extend the system. This is a lot of progress than TeX's language.

At present, because of the monopoly of TeX, and because TeXmacs is French, the system is not very popular in the United States, many people have not heard of this kind of thing exists. Many people in academic circles do not understand the value of this graphic editing software because they are "brainwashed" by some kind of mistaken thinking. I hope the Chinese people, like the French people, overtake the United States.

To quickly master the basic usage of TeXmacs, you can refer to the TeXmacs mind map I have drawn:

"Go" TeXmacs: a Real "WYSIWYG" typesetting system