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[Texmacs-dev] Why I hate TexMacs
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Eli Osherovich |
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[Texmacs-dev] Why I hate TexMacs |
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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:50:08 +0300 |
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Well, the subject is a little bit provocative, but, this will probably help to
draw your attention.
I use TexMacs for short notes that have to contain a lot of math. However,
recently, I decided to give a chance and to use it for something more
serious. It took about a week to prepare a text and illustrations and to put
all together in a document. BUT... (here comes the greatest surprise) the
effort was absolutely a waste of time, simply because I could not share it
with anybody. TexMacs HAS NO ABILITY TO PRINT/EXPORT/DO SOMETHING USEFULL
with images (is eps format). WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT.
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???????
All those people probably do not know that the tool they try to port simply is
not worth it.
Do you want to waste your time on an editor that has the following "features"
1. Costant problems with speller (cannot connect to ispell...)
2. Has no ability to change an environment (say, you want to change equation
to eqnarray or vice versa)
3. Cannot print or export to PDF any high quality images.
4. Export to latex is broken (try to compile a generic style document)
5. And many many others....
P.S.
Actually I like TexMacs for it's ease of use and very good bindings,
unfortunately is can be used only for toy-problems. And developers are not
interested in any change. They would rather discuss months a new icon sets or
crap like that.
P.S.S.
If you want some predictable results use plain LaTeX or try LyX if you need
some visualization capabilities while you write.
- [Texmacs-dev] Why I hate TexMacs,
Eli Osherovich <=