texmacs(1) General Commands Manual texmacs(1)
NAME
GNU TeXmacs - a WYSIWYG mathematical text editor
SYNOPSIS
texmacs [OPTION]... [SOURCE]...
INTRODUCTION
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured docu-
ments via a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program imple-
ments high-quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help you to produce professionally looking documents.
The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically generated formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface for com-
puter algebra systems. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, so that you may customize the interface and write your
own extensions to the editor.
TeXmacs currently runs on PC's and PPC's under Gnu/linux (a >200MHz processor and >32Mb of memory are recommended) 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 evoluate towards a
complete scientific office suite, with spreadsheet capacities, a technical drawing editor and a presentation mode.
DESCRIPTION
-b [file], --initialize-buffer [file]
Uses [file] as a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs buffers.
-c [in] [out], --convert [in] [out]
Convert input file [in] into output file [out]. The file formats are determined automatically from the suffixes and as a function
of the contents of [in]. The argument list may contain several conversion instructions and you will usually want to use this option
in combination with --quit.
-d, --debug
Display most important debugging information.
--debug-events
Display all widget events.
--debug-io
Display all communicated data between TeXmacs and extern systems.
--debug-all
Turn all debugging flags on.
--delete-cache
This option deletes all files in the TeXmacs cache. TeXmacs uses several caches for speeding up font, file, directory and style file
loading. However, these optimizations may be incorrect when the user manually changes files in the TeXmacs distribution or when new
fonts are added. This is rarely the case for normal users, but sometimes necessary for TeXmacs developers.
--delete-doc-cache
This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the cache for accelerated help file loading.
--delete-file-cache
This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the cache for accelerated file loading.
--delete-font-cache
This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the cache for accelerated font loading.
--delete-style-cache
This option is similar to --delete-cache, but only deletes the cache for accelerated style file loading.
-fn [font], --font [font]
Sets the default TeX fonts for menus and so to [font]. The [font] is of the form [name], [name][size] or [name][size]@[dpi]. For
instance, ecss11@400 would give a sans serif font at 400 dpi. By default, the [size] is 11 and the [dpi] 300.
-g [geom], --geometry [geom]
Suggested geometry for TeXmacs windows. Here [geom] may be a size [width x height] in pixels, like in `texmacs -g 600x480'. It may
also take the form [width x height [+|-] xoff [+|-] yoff], like in `texmacs -g 800x600-100+100'.
-h, --help
Display a help message, which lists the command line options of TeXmacs.
-i [file], --initialize [file]
Uses [file] as a guile/scheme initialization file for TeXmacs.
-Oc, --no-char-clipping
Faster but less perfect displaying of anti-aliased fonts.
+Oc, --char-clipping
High quality displaying of anti-aliased fonts (default).
-p, --path
Echo the TeXmacs path.
-q, --quit
Shortcut for the option -x "(quit-TeXmacs)".
-r, --reverse
Reverse video mode. This mode inverts and weakens the intensity of all colors. This option is only available as a global start-up
option. You cannot change it while running TeXmacs.
-s, --silent
Silent execution: less messages to standard output.
-S, --setup
Rerun the setup program before starting TeXmacs. The setup program analyzes your TeX/LaTeX distribution and the plugins which are
installed on your system.
-v, --version
Display the current TeXmacs version.
-V, --verbose
Display some informative messages.
-x, --execute [cmd]
Execute the scheme command [cmd] just after startup. If you specify several -x options, then the corresponding scheme commands are
executed in the same order.
AUTHOR
Written by Joris van der Hoeven
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bugs@texmacs.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Joris van der Hoeven
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. GNU TeXmacs comes with NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for GNU TeXmacs can be accessed through the help menu when starting up the editor. You may also access the online
documentation from inside the editor. The TeXmacs website at <http://www.texmacs.org> can be consulted for additional information. The TeX-
macs web pages are also available at <http://www.gnu.org/software/texmacs>.
TeXmacs-1.0.7.15 12Sep2005 texmacs(1)