Hi,

We are happy to announce the release of GNU TeXmacs 1.0.4,
a free and user-friendly structured text editor.
You can download the program at

	http://www.texmacs.org

TeXmacs allows you to write structured documents directly
on your screen, in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get manner.
The editor comes with special support for mathematical formulas and
the typographical quality of the printed output is comparable with
what you can achieve with the TeX/LaTeX system.

TeXmacs can be used on all major Unix-based platforms,
including Cygwin (for use under Windows) and Fink (for use on MacOsX).
A reasonably fast computer (1GHz) is recommended for comfortable use.
Documents can be saved in the native TeXmacs format, XML, or Scheme.
An input converter exists for LaTeX and documents can be converted
into LaTeX, Html, Postscript and Pdf.

TeXmacs is extremely customizable and extensible in several ways.
First of all, the user may write his/her own "dynamic macros" and
style files. Secondly, in a similar way as in Emacs, you may customize
the user interface and write your own enhancements to the editor via
the Guile/Scheme extension language.

Extern programs can be interfaced with TeXmacs in a very easy and
flexible way. For instance, TeXmacs can be made to behave like a shell,
but with structured input and output. Plug-ins exist for many computer
algebra systems (Axiom, Giac, gTybalt, Macaulay 2, Maxima, Mupad, Pari,
Reduce, Yacas) and several other scientific programs (Clisp, Cmucl,
Dr. Geo, Eukleides, Matlab, GNU Octave, Python, Qcl, GNU R, Scilab).

The program has been designed with an eye on the future.
We plan to let TeXmacs evolve into an XML editor with dynamic
XSL support. Other tools, like a spreadsheet, a web-publisher,
a presentation mode and a scientific drawing editor
will be integrated in the years to come.

Finally, there is a dynamic community of users and developers
around TeXmacs:

	http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/ml.en.html
	http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/help/help.en.html

At these addresses, you can find documentation, ask questions and
make your own contributions. Such feedback will enable us to
make TeXmacs evolve toward an ideal working environment for you.

Yours sincerely,

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Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
http://www.texmacs.org: GNU TeXmacs scientific text editor
http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven: personal homepage
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