GNU Texmacs

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Features

GNU TeXmacs: your scientific text editor

High quality mathematical typesetting

Multiple language support

Interfaces for computational software

Integrated picture editor

Integrated presentation mode

And much more…

Overview

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents using a WYSIWYG interface.

It provides a unified and user‑friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content, slides, etc.

TeXmacs can be used as a graphical front‑end for many systems in computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, and more.

Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, XML, or Scheme format and printed as PDF or PostScript files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and HTML/MathML. Note that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX.

Its rendering engine uses high‑quality typesetting algorithms to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop.

New styles can be written by the user, and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language.

Runs on all major Unix platforms, macOS, and Windows.