1 GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired
2 by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
3 documents via a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user
4 friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program
5 implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which
6 help you to produce professionally looking documents.
8 The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically
9 generated formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface for
10 computer algebra systems. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme
11 extension language, so that you may customize the interface and write
12 your own extensions to the editor.
14 TeXmacs currently runs on PC's and PPC's under Gnu/linux (a >200MHz
15 processor and >32Mb of memory are recommended) and on sun computers.
16 Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and they are under development for
17 Html/Mathml/Xml. In the future, TeXmacs is planned to evoluate towards
18 a complete scientific office suite, with spreadsheet capacities, a
19 technical drawing editor and a presentation mode.