GNU TeXmacs

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor inspired by TeX and emacs.

From http://www.texmacs.org/:

Key Features

Screenshot

See screenshots.

Installation

Hints and Tips

TeXmacs and Maxima Integration

TeXmacs can be used as a pretty front-end to Maxima.

There is a bug in Edgy-Hardy preventing TeXmacs from being used as a front-end to Maxima. (See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texmacs/+bug/58498) The problem can be solved by changing the first line of file /usr/lib/texmacs/TeXmacs/bin/maxima_detect to #!/bin/bash.

If you use Maxima5.13 and Texmacs 1.0.6.11, scripts maxima_detect and tm_maxima in directory /usr/lib/texmacs/TeXmacs/bin needed to changed manually.

find the following code in maxima_detect

        if $MAXIMA --list-avail | grep -F "version 5.9.1
version 5.9.2
version 5.9.3
version 5.10
version 5.11
version 5.12" >/dev/null

change to

        if $MAXIMA --list-avail | grep -F "version 5.9.1
version 5.9.2
version 5.9.3
version 5.10
version 5.11
version 5.12
version 5.13" >/dev/null

find the following code in tm_maxima

5.11.* | 5.12.*) exec maxima -u $1 -l $2 -p "$TEXMACS_MAXIMA_PATH/texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp";;

change to

5.11.* | 5.12.* | 5.13.*) exec maxima -u $1 -l $2 -p "$TEXMACS_MAXIMA_PATH/texmacs-maxima-5.11.0.lisp";;

Fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean

From version 1.0.6.1 on, TeXmacs comes with support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. However, the standard distributions do not include the necessary fonts, which can be downloaded separately:

After downloading, cd into the directory ~/.TeXmacs (which you have to create if it does not already exist) and unpack the fonts using

gunzip -c TeXmacs-language-fonts.tar.gz | tar xvf -

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Further Reading


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TeXmacs (last edited 2009-08-03 01:17:41 by c-68-80-200-223)