texmacs(1)

1texmacs(1)                  General Commands Manual                 texmacs(1)
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NAME

6       GNU TeXmacs - a WYSIWYG mathematical text editor
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SYNOPSIS

9       texmacs [OPTION]... [SOURCE]...
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INTRODUCTION

12       GNU  TeXmacs  is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired
13       by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write  structured  docu‐
14       ments  via  a  wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user friendly
15       interface.  New styles may be created by the user. The  program  imple‐
16       ments high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help you
17       to produce professionally looking documents.
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19       The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically  gen‐
20       erated  formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface for com‐
21       puter algebra systems. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme extension
22       language,  so  that  you may customize the interface and write your own
23       extensions to the editor.
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25       TeXmacs currently runs on PC's and PPC's  under  Gnu/linux  (a  >200MHz
26       processor  and  >32Mb  of memory are recommended) and on sun computers.
27       Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX  and  they  are  under  development  for
28       Html/Mathml/Xml.  In the future, TeXmacs is planned to evoluate towards
29       a complete scientific office  suite,  with  spreadsheet  capacities,  a
30       technical drawing editor and a presentation mode.
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DESCRIPTION

33       -b [file], --initialize-buffer [file]
34              Uses  [file]  as  a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs
35              buffers.
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37       -c [in] [out], --convert [in] [out]
38              Convert input file [in] into output file [out].  The  file  for‐
39              mats  are  determined  automatically  from the suffixes and as a
40              function of the contents of [in].  The argument list may contain
41              several conversion instructions and you will usually want to use
42              this option in combination with --quit.
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44       -d, --debug
45              Display most important debugging information.
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47       --debug-events
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50       --debug-io
51              Display all communicated data between TeXmacs  and  extern  sys‐
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54       --debug-all
55              Turn all debugging flags on.
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57       --delete-cache
58              This option deletes all files in the TeXmacs cache. TeXmacs uses
59              several caches for speeding up font, file, directory  and  style
60              file  loading.   However,  these  optimizations may be incorrect
61              when the user manually changes files in the TeXmacs distribution
62              or when new fonts are added.  This is rarely the case for normal
63              users, but sometimes necessary for TeXmacs developers.
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65       --delete-doc-cache
66              This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only  deletes  the
67              cache for accelerated help file loading.
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69       --delete-file-cache
70              This  option  is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
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73       --delete-font-cache
74              This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only  deletes  the
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77       --delete-style-cache
78              This  option  is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
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81       -fn [font], --font [font]
82              Sets the default TeX fonts for menus  and  so  to  [font].   The
83              [font]    is    of    the    form    [name],   [name][size]   or
84              [name][size]@[dpi].  For instance, ecss11@400 would give a  sans
85              serif  font  at  400  dpi.  By default, the [size] is 11 and the
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88       -g [geom], --geometry [geom]
89              Suggested geometry for TeXmacs windows.  Here [geom]  may  be  a
90              size  [width  x height] in pixels, like in `texmacs -g 600x480'.
91              It may also take the form  [width  x  height  [+|-]  xoff  [+|-]
92              yoff], like in `texmacs -g 800x600-100+100'.
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94       -h, --help
95              Display  a help message, which lists the command line options of
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98       -i [file], --initialize [file]
99              Uses [file] as a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs.
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101       -Oc, --no-char-clipping
102              Faster but less perfect displaying of anti-aliased fonts.
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107       -p, --path
108              Echo the TeXmacs path.
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110       -q, --quit
111              Shortcut for the option -x "(quit-TeXmacs)".
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113       -r, --reverse
114              Reverse video mode. This mode inverts and weakens the  intensity
115              of all colors.  This option is only available as a global start-
116              up option. You cannot change it while running TeXmacs.
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118       -s, --silent
119              Silent execution: less messages to standard output.
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121       -S, --setup
122              Rerun the setup program before starting TeXmacs.  The setup pro‐
123              gram  analyzes your TeX/LaTeX distribution and the plugins which
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126       -v, --version
127              Display the current TeXmacs version.
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129       -V, --verbose
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132       -x, --execute [cmd]
133              Execute the scheme command [cmd] just  after  startup.   If  you
134              specify  several  -x options, then the corresponding scheme com‐
135              mands are executed in the same order.
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AUTHOR

138       Written by Joris van der Hoeven
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REPORTING BUGS

141       Report bugs to <bugs@texmacs.org>.
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COPYRIGHT

144       Copyright © 1999-2005 Joris van der Hoeven
145       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  GNU TeX‐
146       macs comes with NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
147       FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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