Hi Michael, On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 07:04:08PM -0500, Michael Shea wrote:

Well I must say I am a little disappointed with this release. While I am happy with the program as is, since this is a major version number release, I expected there to be major feature updates and was excited to explore them. I went straight to the changelog only to find the only difference listed between 2.1 and 1.99.21 was "Minor Bug Fixes".

This actually should not surprise you at all ;^) For a major release, stability is crucially important. But this is hard to achieve when making lots of changes, unless you are a private company that can spend a lot of money on internal testing. The 1.99.* numbering also indicates that you should expect consolidation instead of major changes (in fact, we did introduce some major improvements during the 1.99.* releases, but they were not really planned).

It seems like the choice of the version release number might be related to the publicity push for TeXmacs, and I am fine with that. TeXmacs is such an awesome program I certainly wish it had wider distribution. I have some ideas on how to generate publicity and foster wider distribution. I also think that TeXmacs has the potential to revolutionize math education at the secondary and undergraduate level. I will start to share these ideas soon with the list.

Thanks, I am eager to hear your ideas! Best wishes, --Joris