On 2003-02-26, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Software design document": > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0200, kfir lavi wrote: > > > > > what is the best for complicated mathematical notations ? > > > > Tex, LaTeX, LyX, no contest. > > There's also "Texmacs", what supposedly is cross between TeX and Emacs, > but in reality bears no relation to either (it's a WYSIWYG word processor, > that does not actually use TeX - it only tries to look as good). Texmacs > is a GNU project, or so they claim - check out http://www.texmacs.org/. > Its main conection to TeX is that it uses TeX fonts, even on screen. It looks really good, better than any word but that's no news to people used to TeX :-).
It's WYSIWYG++ :-). It allows you to define macros, to create your own structure elements, with some sort of a higienic macro system. That very neat for a visual system, never saw anything else like this. The interface lets you feel quite well the abstract tree of the document you are editing, which is also very rare for WYSIWYG. So it's quite close to LyX's WYSIWYM goals, without giving up beautiful display. Promising, IMO. > Note that I never used texmacs, so I don't know how well it works in > real life usage. > I have, a bit. It's quite nice and I intially found it more pleasant to work with than LaTeX (even though I usually prefer editing some source). It doesn't have the "smelly quircky" feel of [La]TeX, resulting from the macro processor never intended for maintainable large-scale programming, if you know what I mean. It looks convenient for complex math; actually looking at the real equations is a big improvement over even TeX's notation :-). Be warned that it lacks good editing features, closer to word than emacs at this area :-(. It has one fatal flaw: no Hebrew, no BiDi (it does have tranlations and support for most European languages). I've just mailed the developers asking whether they have bidi plans... > My personal preference is using LaTeX straight, but I admit that it's not > an appealing concept for someone who's already a Microsoft-Office junkie. > -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't like assignments, I like problems. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
