6 <tmdoc-title|A short description of GNU <TeXmacs>>
8 GNU <TeXmacs> is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing
9 platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide
10 a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with
11 different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive
12 content, <abbr|etc.>). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting
13 algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can
14 either be printed out or presented from a laptop.
16 The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas,
17 a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a
18 laptop. Moreover, <TeXmacs> can be used as an interface for many external
19 systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics,<nbsp>etc. New
20 presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be
21 added to the editor using the <name|Scheme> extension language. A native
22 spreadsheet and tools for collaborative authoring are planned for later.
24 <TeXmacs> runs on all major <name|Unix> platforms and <name|Windows>.
25 Documents can be saved in <TeXmacs>, <name|Xml> or <name|Scheme> format and
26 printed as <name|Postscript> or <name|Pdf> files. Converters exist for
27 <TeX>/<LaTeX> and <name|Html>/<name|Mathml>.
29 GNU <TeXmacs> is hosted by the <hlink|Centre de Ressources Informatiques de
30 Haute Savoie|http://www.cri74.org>, Archamps, France.
32 <tmdoc-copyright|1998--2005|Joris van der Hoeven>
34 <tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
35 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
36 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
37 Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
38 Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
39 Documentation License".>
44 <associate|language|english>