Comment by lejalv
1 day ago
It's easy to miss the video on the front page, which I find provides a great visual summary of features and will make you understand why other commenters are praising how efficient (and pleasurable, I might add!) TeXmacs is: https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html.
You can find some example documents here https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/example-documents.html.
Other posts on the TeXmacs notes site discuss programmability with Scheme, typesetting math (https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/texmacs-math-typesettin..., shows how good the HTML export is), and more.
The best in-depth reference, even counting the astoundingly complete bundled manual, remains The Jolly Writer. It is a beautifully typeset book, available at https://www.scypress.com/book_download.html.
EDIT: missing link, typo
For me, also highly intestering is the internal data model and serialization, see section "TeXmacs' content model" in https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/overview.html
The animation in presentation mode is really impressive, I’ve never seen something like that not even in ppt
The main person behind TeXmacs, Joris van der Hoeven, is also a coauthor on this paper:
"Integer multiplication in time n(log n)" https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2021/193-2/p04
Said paper in html rendered by texmacs [1] and past discussion [2]
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991447
The video is hosted on YouTube. Richard Stallman might have something to say about that.
I prefer the lyx editor.