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[Jan Ulrich Hasecke <address@hidden>]

Lionel Elie Mamane <address@hidden> writes:

> You are opening up serious religious wars here. 

I think thats right. It is dangerous to compare TeXmacs with emacs and
LaTeX. In many ways.

I just stopped working with TeXmacs on a document with 20 or so
included files, because TeXmacs gets too slow and even crashes. Its no
fun to work with tm, when you have big documents. This is almost a
word-experience. ;-)

I never experienced those problems with emacs+reftex+latex(pdflatex)
This combination simply works. And if you want to do something
specific, there will be a solution around.

The TeXmacs-User-Group is simply too small, so there are no solutions
for many problems. Especially concerning style-files. 

And the TeXmacs-Community is too math-centric, so there are many
plugins to use all kinds of math-software, but only some users are
demanding and developing features as good gui, easy changeable
style-files, fast navigation and so on. (Have you ever tried to
correct a mispelled often used name in 20 included files? Have you
ever tried to change section to subsection or vice versa?)

If I understand the developers right, they all know this and they are
working on it. I think the aim is to have a real good publishing
environment for end users. And a dream would be to have it in KDE. ;-)

The association to TeX and emacs hooked me too, because of the
typesetting quality of TeX and the easy editing of emacs. The
typesetting quality of TeXmacs is superb, but editing larger projects
sucks. And it is as impossible to edit emacs lisp files as to edit
TeXmacs style-files. ;-)

So regarding the name...

...typoskriptum?

juh

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