[HN Gopher] TeXmacs "The Jolly Writer" book is now available as ...
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TeXmacs "The Jolly Writer" book is now available as pdf download
Author : amichail
Score : 37 points
Date : 2022-12-28 14:05 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.scypress.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.scypress.com)
| amichail wrote:
| This book was written by the main author of TeXmacs and
| previously only available in hard cover format.
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| BTW, you can also make a donation from the download page.
| Koshkin wrote:
| Thanks, just did. TeXmacs is one of the best examples of high
| quality free software.
| random314 wrote:
| I wonder what texmacs template he used to author the book, it
| looks great.
| spacewizard wrote:
| TeXmacs has been an excellent tool that has allowed me to quickly
| write numerous beautiful documents in the style of TeX during my
| PhD without all the struggle of TeX itself. I'd highly recommend
| anyone who regularly writes/types technical documents to give
| this a go.
|
| There is a small learning curve, but with the Jolly Writer now
| being freely available, I think the learning curve is
| significantly diminished.
|
| On top of this, there is a bustling community of users on
| http://forum.texmacs.cn who support one another when problems
| arise.
| chungy wrote:
| It has some severe limitations if you really want to exploit
| what TeX allows you to do with layouting.
|
| That being said, most documents don't need to (ab)use TeX to
| that extent. TeXmacs is fine for probably over 99% of actual
| documents.
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