mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Wayan <address@hidden>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:

> write LaTeX-Sourcecode, when he started with Word or something
> else. And we all know that there is a lot of ERT (Evil Red Text) even

No, actually... LyX needs ERT if the features are not yet implemented in
it. I have used both lyx and TeXmacs, but TeXmacs is more complicated to
make a table (sorry for my dummy). I don't know, because I am only
end-users (I am geologists, don't know about programming or TeX
programming anyway).

> in LyX. When there are problems in LyX, the user have to know
> something about LaTeX. The user I think should know nothing about the
> source at all, when he uses a typesetting-program.

Yes, but the interaction between lyx-users and developers and between
texmacs-users and developers is different. LyX-developers/users-list never
answer a dummy question with giving an URL, something like that. Sorry,
this was just my experience with texmacs-users-list a year ago. Now, is
going better...

> So if TeXmacs is doing nearly the same as LaTeX, then it is useful to
> all users.

We hope.

> The strongest argument is I think the typesetting quality. This is a
> good argument to the normal user and especially for the
> mathematicians.

The type setting quality is similar, isn't it? Do you see different
quality between LyX/TeXmacs/LaTeX? I think this not strong argument.


> If there are more TeXmacs-users, there will be more contributors. So
> how to get more users?

Maybe some people which had a lot of experience with TeXmacs should make a
dummy users-guide for end-users without experience in computer. I have
still problem to make a table with TeXmacs. I have read the User's Guide
but not undertood. I have introduced the TeXmacs in some mailling list of
my cuntry, they said, still difficult to use.

Sorry for my comments.

Best regards and keep a good works,

Wayan