GiovanniP

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by GiovanniP 3mo ago
I think it is fair to point at a paper where Van der Hoeven argues in detail in favor of the WYSIWYG paradigm: J. van der Hoeven. GNU TeXmacs: a free, structured, wysiwyg and technical text editor. In Daniel Filipo, editor, Le document au
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by GiovanniP 3mo ago
I think it is so. As far as I know, there are no converters that can do that. A search with an LLM made me find https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.16562 , a paper describing the ArXiv conversion tool from LaTeX to HTML; here is
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by GiovanniP 3mo ago
While Typst appears to be popular, I think that TeXmacs, https://www.texmacs.org/ , which is a program independent from both TeX and Emacs, is the kind of program that we need for writing: a fully WYSIWYG, fully structured d
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by GiovanniP 7mo ago
There is some support for the LaTeX ecosystem from within TeXmacs. If you want a TikZ drawing, you can insert it programmatically into a TeXmacs document in a seamless way---if you have the same font for your TeXmacs document and for LaTeX
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by GiovanniP 7mo ago
It has to do with LaTeX and emacs in intent. LaTeX: accomplished typography emacs: control of the interface It delivers.
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by GiovanniP 7mo ago
The name is weird, the project is sound :-)
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by GiovanniP 7mo ago
Superior to LyX: fully WYSIWYG, no limitation on what it can do.
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by GiovanniP 7mo ago
I use it for all of the pedagogical material I distribute to my high school pupils. It allows me to type quickly and accurately math and explanation with exquisite typography. It allows me to edit freely and with total ease what I have alre
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by GiovanniP 10mo ago
I would rather use TeXmacs, it frees you from the write-compile cycle while being equivalent (maybe in some ways better) from the point of view of the control you have on the document and the typographical quality. There is also a wide choi
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by GiovanniP 1y ago
In addition to making it possible to write easily, TeXmacs is also based on a markup language. It demonstrates that a markup language and WYSIWYG writing can coexist efficiently.
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by GiovanniP 1y ago
> Only Adobe InDesign provides a comparable implementation, tweaking all those details. TeXmacs claims to have implemented microtypography as well ( https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/news.en.html , as I am readi
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
I agree that the images correspond to the same region in object space. Further assumptions on optical resolution don't work well, as the optical resolution depends on the f-number.
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
> assuming infinite resolution this is an assumption that goes against the concept of "f-number" so if one does it, they should not expect to get to anything sensible.
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
I expect depth of focus to be different.
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
There is some support, but I do not know the details. You might try and ask in the TeXmacs forum, at http://forum.texmacs.cn/ ; a few of the developers read it and answer questions and they might have the information you are
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
"et alii" for people (masculine plural nominative) "et alia" for things (neutrum plural nominative) "et cetera" for things as well
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by GiovanniP 2y ago
> 1. Write programs that you think are cool > 2. Learn about data structures and algorithms and complexity and software organization. > 3. Write programs that you think are cool. But since you know more, you can write more cool pro
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> visual output with suboptimal aesthetics (TeXmacs, and, to some extent, LyX) Till now I took the developers word that the aesthetics of TeXmacs is better than the one of TeX and I would be curious to know where the opposite is true (an
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
Packages for chemistry are useful, even if I don't use them myself. Also siunitx needs yet a TeXmacs equivalent (I think https://github.com/pireddag/SIunits/tree/simple is not yet good enough)
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
On the other hand if something (in this case ease of installation) helps people to use the tool, then it helps TeXmacs too, which in turn helps users.
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
And slide presentations.
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> if you’ve got a niche tool with better UX but no widespread adoption in a very entrenched user base, you’re not going to take over Yet I think that it is necessary to keep promoting TeXmacs, a niche yet nice tool, as the shortcomings
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
Here as far as I understand the fact that TeX is a Turing-complete language makes it impossible to write a converter for TeX. I read a post by Joris van der Hoeven where he said that TeX held back every other program by making it impossible
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
For questions about TeXmacs please try the forum at http://forum.texmacs.cn/
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> So certainly there are many more things you can to with TeX (but not with LaTeX itself) than with TeXmacs Although TeXmacs plus its Scheme extension language is much more powerful than TeXmacs alone.
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
I do think that TeXmacs can be used as a generic Word clone with beautiful typesetting, maybe "out-of-the-box", maybe with a little bit of tweaking. If you need tweaking, the forum at http://forum.texmacs.cn/ may
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
I am using it since several years and I have yet to find the caveat :-) It has low discoverability, so you have to go through the manuals, the mailing list and the forum (and maybe the blog too, at https://texmacs.gitee.io/n
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> TeXmacs necessitates using its own interface (which lacks my vim keybindings and Emacs customizations) TeXmacs's own interface is deeply customizable by the user via Scheme. I think you can set it up to have vim keybindings---see
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> Has this recently become better? You should try TeXmacs; it is not recent, but it has become smooth and it is superior to both LaTeX and Word under every point of view.
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by GiovanniP 4y ago
> Students seem to spend lost weeks and months fiddling with MS-Word only to create mediocre looking output. I am suprised, and keep being surprised, that people haven't yet figured out that there is an excellent tool, that is TeXma

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