GNU TEXMACS (alternatively, TeXmacs) is a free scientific word processor component of the GNU project, which was both inspired by TEX and GNU Emacs. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hooven. The program allows you to write structured documents via a user-friendly WYSIWYG interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and TEX fonts, which help the user to produce professional looking documents.
The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically generated formulas, which makes TEXMACS suitable as an interface for a number of computer algebra systems including GNU Maxima. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, so that you may customize the interface and write your own extensions to the program.
TEXMACS currently runs on x86- and PowerPC-based computers under GNU/Linux (a 200MHz processor and 32 MB of memory or higher are recommended), under UNIX compatibility layers for Microsoft Windows (Cygwin) and Mac OS X (Fink), and on Sun computers. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX, and they are under development for HTML/MathML/XML. In the future, TEXMACS is planned to evolve towards a complete scientific office suite, with spreadsheet capacities, a technical drawing editor and a presentation mode.
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