[Texmacs-dev] Re: Why I hate TexMacs

[Abdelrazak Younes]

slept wrote:
> Eli Osherovich wrote:
> > It is something funny to read a hot discussion on how to compile it 
> > under MacOS or any other OS. WHY DO YOU WANT IT???????
>
> First of all I love the way you can type formulas with Texmacs. And 
> acctually I am quite sure people who want to be productive don't care 
> about the way the buttons look, but from what I understood thats not 
> completely the point in the argument.

You got it right.

> > If you want some predictable results use plain LaTeX or try LyX if you 
> > need some visualization capabilities while you write.
> That is, what your communication resulted in for me. I didn't know about 
> lyx before, I have to say I like it and I can use spellchecking which I 
> need. But for writing formulas(in physics) texmacs is superior ...

I don't want to do LyX advocacy here but 1.6 will have completion 
support for math.

> that 
> is a point where I am hoping that you might join forces and combine 
> parts (I have no idea if that is possible since you seem to have 
> different views on programming).

Right :-)
In any case the problem of writing math is purely a binding issue. 
Compared to TeXmacs, LyX is closer to LateX syntax WRT math.

Abdel.