- 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, etc.
- 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. Notice that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX.
- Its rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as 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.
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Ted for Linux: copyright and disclaimer
Ted is free software. By making Ted freely available, I want to contribute to the propagation of Linux as a viable platform for technical computer enthusiasts. As Ted is free software, I assume no responsibility for the consequences of using it. It is up to you to decide whether Ted suits your purpose or not. Ted is distributed with absolutely no warranty under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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The installation of Ted depends on the platform and on the kind of distribution. Binary distributions for Intel ix86 Linux are available from the download site http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted. The distribution comes in the form of compressed tar archives and as Red Hat package manager (RPM) packages and Debian installer packages (DEB). Binary distributions for other platforms might be available. For more or more recent information refer to the Ted web site http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted. All binary installer .tar.gz packages are packaged relative to /.
To install Ted or one of the localization packages from an RPM package, log in as root, (Or any system user with sufficient permissions to install packages.) and give the command rpm -i <package-details>.rpm . To upgrade from a previous version of Ted give the command rpm -U <package-details>.rpm. The corresponding command on Debian based Linux versions like Ubuntu is dpkg -i <package-details>.deb. It takes care of installing as well as of upgrading. I used Ubuntu 12.04 to build the *.deb and *.tar.gz files and fedora 17 to build the *.rpm files. A Solaris build can be installed with pkgadd -d <package-details>.pkg.
To compile Ted from source. Refer to the compilation instructions at the end of this document.