[Texmacs-dev] New stable release 1.0.5

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi all,

Here follow the diffed and full release notes for the stable
version 1.0.5, which is available now. If you notice any major bugs,
then please let me know quickly, so that I can correct them before
the official release tomorrow morning.

Best wishes, Joris

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Hi all,

I am happy to announce the new stable release 1.0.5 of TeXmacs.
The main improvements with respect to TeXmacs-1.0.4 are:

  * A native Windows port of TeXmacs is available now.

  * Addition of the (still imperfect) svmono, svjour, elsart and ifac styles.

  * A more complete documentation on how to write style files.

  * German translation of the manual by Dietmar Jung.

  * Several minor improvements in performance.

  * Updated and improved Maxima plug-in for upcoming version 5.9.2 of Maxima.

  * Addition of a plug-in for DraTeX.

Best wishes,

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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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Hi,

We are happy to announce the release of GNU TeXmacs 1.0.5,
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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