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texmacs / tm-forge

tm-forge

A repository of user contributed content for TeXmacs

3Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
63GitHub stars
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A repository of user contributed content for TeXmacs

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Observed mentions: 2021-05-09 19:23:39 UTC to 2026-02-25 22:00:40 UTC.

012342021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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It is used regularly to write academic papers (examples here <https://www.texmacs.org/joris/main/publs.html>) and thesis, examples here: <https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree/main/examples/these...> and here <https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/example-documents.html>. It is used to write lecture notes and to deliver lectures online (e.g. here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynDi7EYP95Ep...). It can be used to produce full static website (e.g. here <https://mgubi.github.io/docs/main.html>, here <https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html> and here <https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/main.html>). There are not many users, but it is a working software with regular updates, since ~2000. Who compare it to LaTeX or Typst miss the point that it is a software designed to render writing a lot of mathematics easier
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and more importantly to not loose focus in irrelevant details. It has a visual macro system (see e.g. <https://x.com/gnu_texmacs/status/1251554336842407938>), something I haven't seen elsewhere, in production software. It is a structure editor, and an exploration of the design space in scientific editors. A field which lacks innovation and creativity.
In GNU Texmacs
I'm not sure which kind of limitations you are referring to. In my experience the only kind of things I cannot replicate with TeXmacs are variable width paragraphs to follows an arbitrary shape around an image. TeXmacs can do multi-column paragraphs, and complex layouts like this one: https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree/main/examples/resum... or this one https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/blob/main/examples/exerc... or rich presentations like this one https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/blob/main/examples/lectu... One should bear in mind that TeX by itself is a Turing-complete typesetting language while TeXmacs format is a format that is it restrict the range of documents one can express in order to be able to transform them more reliably, e.g. by conversion to HTML or PDF or even LaTeX. So certainly there are many more things you c
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an to with TeX (but not with LaTeX itself) than with TeXmacs but this is a feature, not a bug :) (very much like the fact that you can do many more things with PS than with PDF, and that is why the first is a language while the second is a format).
In TeXmacs “The Jolly Writer” book is now available as pdf download
I use it for anything going from lecture notes, personal notes and plans, letters with university heading, presentations, cv. Some CV examples can be found here: https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree/main/examples for example this: https://github.com/texmacs/tm-forge/tree/main/examples/kjh-v... some of them can be directly exported to HTML. For myself I use a simpler style and tweaked a bit the bibliography styles to get a list of my publications. I see no reason to use LaTeX to typeset anything which does not require to be sent to a publisher and even in that case I prefer to use TeXmacs for most of the life-cycle of the document and export to LaTeX as I export to PDF or HTML, i.e. for rendering purposes, or transmission. But I guess it depends very much on which kind of document are you thinking to. TeXmacs can be used (more or less
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out of the box) to create websites. The main TeXmacs page at www.texmacs.org is made with TeXmacs and also the blog at https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/overview.html
In TeXmacs “The Jolly Writer” book is now available as pdf download

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