The package "TeXmacs" is now available with the Cygwin distribution.
Canonical homepage: http://texmacs.org Canonical download: ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/targz/ DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help you to produce professionally looking documents. The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically generated formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface for computer algebra systems. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, so that you may customize the interface and write your own extensions to the editor. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/MathML/Xml. In the future, TeXmacs is planned to evolve towards a complete scientific office suite. GETTING STARTED QUICKLY: ======================== 1. Install TeXmacs ------------------ To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Editors" or "Math" and then click on the appropriate fields until the above announced version number appears if it is not displayed already. 2. Start and test your X ------------------------ Double click on the Cygwin icon on your Desktop, this brings up a black Cygwin shell. Type: export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 XWin -multiwindow -clipboard & xterm & In the tray in the lower right corner of your screen you will see a black X and an additional (white) window should appear. In order not to set the DISPLAY variable again and again, you should set it as a user's variable; e.g. under Windows XP: Start->Control_Panel->System->Advanced->Environment_variables 3. Start TeXmacs ---------------- ... by typing texmacs & into a Cygwin shell. Try a second time, if there is a problem. 4. Hands-on tutorial -------------------- I suggest to try Part 1-3 of the following hands-on tutorial: http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html#3 FURTHER INFORMATION: ==================== If you have TeXmacs-related questions or comments, please send them to the texmac-users mailing list, see: http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/info/texmacs-users (subscription necessary). I would appreciate it if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. Cygwin-related questions and comments should be sent to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin at cygwin dot com . Before emailing these lists, make sure to * read the FAQ at: http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/help/faq.en.html * look at the manual, which comes with TeXmacs and which can be browsed at: http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/manual/web-manual.en.html * read about some Windows-related issues at http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html#issues * search the mailing lists and Google Have lots of fun with TeXmacs! Andreas. -- http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
