Comment by svat

5 years ago

Note that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX (and not on Emacs either). It is a completely independent editor, typesetting language, graphical frontend etc, all in one.

Its developer, Joris van der Hoeven, is one of the co-authors of this research paper that has been exported to HTML, so I presume that the paper was written specifically in/for TeXmacs: your arbitrary LaTeX document won't be so easily importable into TeXmacs AFAIK.

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krupan  5 years ago

This reminds me of grape nuts cereal. You look at the ingredients and there are no grapes and no nuts

  • snakeboy  5 years ago

    “No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ."

    "And?"

    "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”

  • tzs  5 years ago

    How it came to be called Grape-Nuts when it is neither is explained on grapenuts.com [1]:

    > Grape-Nuts actually contains neither grapes nor nuts. It’s made from wheat and barley. So, why is it called Grape-Nuts? As with many great emblems in history, there are two versions of the story. One says that Mr. Post believed glucose, which he called “grape sugar,” formed during the baking process. This, combined with the nutty flavor of the cereal, is said to have inspired its name. Another explanation claims that the cereal got its name from its resemblance to grape seeds, or grape “nuts.”

    [1] https://www.grapenuts.com/our-story/

    • pvorb  5 years ago

      Btw, the German word for glucose is Traubenzucker, which literally translates to "grape sugar". I'm not sure if it's also common in English.

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  • xdavidliu  5 years ago

    I've never used TeXmacs but I do use TeX and Emacs.

    Does TeXmacs at least have macros? (That's what "macs" stands for in Emacs)

beervirus  5 years ago

What a ridiculous name then.

  • gwern  5 years ago

    But, a fitting homage to Emacs then:

    'A cocky novice once said to Stallman: “I can guess why the editor is called Emacs, but why is the justifier called Bolio?”. Stallman replied forcefully, “Names are but names, ‘Emack & Bolio's’ is the name of a popular ice cream shop in Boston-town. Neither of these men had anything to do with the software.”

    His question answered, yet unanswered, the novice turned to go, but Stallman called to him, “Neither Emack nor Bolio had anything to do with the ice cream shop, either.'