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Re: Why not have "adaptive" TeXmacs manual for LaTeX users?


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  • From: Darcy Shen <address@hidden>
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  • Subject: Re: Why not have "adaptive" TeXmacs manual for LaTeX users?
  • Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:41:14 +0800
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I know little about LaTeX. I wrote my bachelor's thesis in LaTeX with a well maintained LaTeX template: https://github.com/ustctug/ustcthesis . Most people (including me) do not learn LaTeX until they needed to write their bachelor's thesis.

Personally, LaTeX only defines the symbols I use in TeXmacs. If I do not know how to input a math symbol in TeXmacs, usually, searching for the corresponding symbol in LaTeX and type \symbol_name in TeXmacs will work for me. Sometimes, I found the symbols in TeXmacs and LaTeX do not match. That is the only pitfall for me. I don't know why TeXmacs choosed another symbol name. It would be better if there are documents about why TeXmacs choosed to use A rather than B (for example, symbol name B used in LaTeX is not semantically correct).

Besides the LaTeX symbols, I am a TeXmacs user without any LaTeX knowledge.

---- On Tue, 2020-12-01 05:05:20 TeXmacs <address@hidden> wrote ----

Hi Amir,

This is based on the idea that people wish to use TeXmacs as a LaTeX-emulator.
I am not sure whether this is the most exciting way to use our software.
Maybe people should stop thinking about LaTeX and be open for a different approach.
Also from a learning point of view.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:15:40PM -0500, Amir Michail wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The idea is to have the user run a TeXmacs scan on some of their LaTeX documents.
>
> From this scan, TeXmacs would generate a subset of its manual that explains how to write those LaTeX documents in TeXmacs.
>
> In this way, if the user is using LaTeX in a basic way, then the TeXmacs manual would be short and relevant to that basic usage.
>
> This might encourage more people to switch to TeXmacs because learning it would not take much time for their usage.
>
> Amir
>



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