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It analyzes reasons behind perceived inadequacy, then discusses GNU TEXmacs and its innovations for overcoming difficulties in structured, WYSIWYG technical text editing. 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The paper indicates additional features are described later in the document.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},345779,1790641045,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":29,"category_name":30,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":19,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":41},687212321768,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/a0010bdbe886d2fe77?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1789897067658708522","Cahiers GUTenberg no 39-40—Mai 2001 39  \nGNU TeXmacs:  \nA free, structured, wysiwyg and technical text editor  \nJoris van der Hoeven  \nDépt. de Mathématiques (bât. 425) Université Paris-Sud  \n91405 Orsay CEDEX (France) [http://www. texmacs.org](http://www. texmacs.org)  \nAbstract. There is a common belief that wysiwyg technical editors are not suited for editing structured texts and generating documents with a high typographical quality. In this paper, we analyze the reasons behind this belief. We next discuss the program GNU TEXmacs and some of its innovations in relation to the difficulties of structured, wysiwyg, technical text editing.  \n1. Introduction  \nThe introductions of popular books on TEX and especially LATEX usually start with a celebration of the benefits of structured documents and generic markup. In this context, LATEX is often compared to wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) text editors, which are claimed to concentrate only on visual design and not logical design. See for instance section 1.5 of Lamport's book on LATEX for some widely accepted reasons why not to use wysiwyg editors.  \nIn the past decade the empirical observation that it was difficult to write well structured documents with wysiwyg editors has made place for a doctrine that such a thing would be impossible. Many people adopted textual ASCIIbased text editors like emacs or vi as a religion and claim that such editors would be the sole in which a structured text—a program—can be correctly visualized.  \nOn the other hand, if systems like TEX and LATEX are so much better than wysiwyg editors, why is it so that most people are still reluctant to learn TEX or LATEX, and why do wysiwyg editors still dominate the market?  \n40 Joris van der Hoeven  \nWhen we started to develop TEXmacs about four years ago, our main design aim was to solve this paradox, by creating a wysiwyg and structured technical text editor 1.  \nIn order to design TEX macs, we first had to analyze the reasons why the wysiwyg editors from then were inadequate for the creation of structured documents. These reasons, which are often of a psychological order, will be studied in section 2 . In a second stage, we observed that these problems were not inherent to wysiwyg editors, and we removed them by developing new editing techniques. These techniques will be presented in section 3 .  \nCurrently, TEXmacs is much more as just a technical text editor. For instance, it is possible to interface the program with several computer algebra systems. As its name suggests, TEXmacs has also been inspired by that Emacs editor. For instance, it supports the Guile/Scheme extension language. In section 4, we will shortly describe some of these additional features.  \nIn section 5, we conclude with the prediction that structured wysiwyg editors will become very common within five years. Nevertheless, an important question is how this will happen, and whether some important lessons from the past will be retained.  \nThe present document was written using TEXmacs .  \n2. Analyzing technical typesetting systems  \n2.1. Drawbacks of classical wysiwyg editors  \nWhen comparing classical wysiwyg editors 2 with TEX or LATEX, the following drawbacks are often heard or implicitly felt:  \nLack of primitives for creating structured text. Most well known wysiwyg editors support only a very limited set of such primitives (such as sections or HTML tags) and there is usually no macro expansion mechanism to create new user primitives.  \nBad visualization of structured text. One solid common belief is that it impossible to adequately visualize structural markup using wysiwyg editors (assuming that such markup is supported) . Indeed, when looking at document with a wysiwyg editor, you can not see a priori whether a section title corresponds to a LATEX-like \\section command, or to a piece of text which has been typeset in an appropriate font.  \n1. 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