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6 GNU TeXmacs - a WYSIWYG mathematical text editor
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9 texmacs [OPTION]... [SOURCE]...
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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.
18 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.
24 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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33 -b [file], --initialize-buffer [file]
34 Uses [file] as a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs
35 buffers.
36 -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.
43 -d, --debug
45 Display most important debugging information.
46 --debug-events
48 Display all widget events.
49 --debug-io
51 Display all communicated data between TeXmacs and extern sys‐
52 tems.
53 --debug-all
55 Turn all debugging flags on.
56 --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.
64 --delete-doc-cache
66 This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
67 cache for accelerated help file loading.
68 --delete-file-cache
70 This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
71 cache for accelerated file loading.
72 --delete-font-cache
74 This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
75 cache for accelerated font loading.
76 --delete-style-cache
78 This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the
79 cache for accelerated style file loading.
80 -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
86 [dpi] 300.
87 -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'.
93 -h, --help
95 Display a help message, which lists the command line options of
96 TeXmacs.
97 -i [file], --initialize [file]
99 Uses [file] as a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs.
100 -Oc, --no-char-clipping
102 Faster but less perfect displaying of anti-aliased fonts.
103 +Oc, --char-clipping
105 High quality displaying of anti-aliased fonts (default).
106 -p, --path
108 Echo the TeXmacs path.
109 -q, --quit
111 Shortcut for the option -x "(quit-TeXmacs)".
112 -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.
117 -s, --silent
119 Silent execution: less messages to standard output.
120 -S, --setup
122 Rerun the setup program before starting TeXmacs. The setup pro‐
123 gram analyzes your TeX/LaTeX distribution and the plugins which
124 are installed on your system.
125 -v, --version
127 Display the current TeXmacs version.
128 -V, --verbose
130 Display some informative messages.
131 -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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138 Written by Joris van der Hoeven
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141 Report bugs to <bugs@texmacs.org>.
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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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150 The full documentation for GNU TeXmacs can be accessed through the help
151 menu when starting up the editor. You may also access the online docu‐
152 mentation from inside the editor. The TeXmacs website at
153 <https://www.texmacs.org> can be consulted for additional information.
154 The TeXmacs web pages are also available at <http://www.gnu.org/soft‐
155 ware/texmacs>.
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