Re: [Texmacs-dev] Why I hate TexMacs

[slept]

Eli Osherovich wrote:

> Well, the subject is a little bit provocative, but, this will probably help to 
> draw your attention. 
>
> I use TexMacs for short notes that have to contain a lot of math. However, 
> recently, I decided to give a chance and to use it for something more 
> serious. It took about a week to prepare a text and illustrations and to put 
> all together in a document. BUT... (here comes the greatest surprise) the 
> effort was absolutely a waste of time, simply because I could not share it 
> with anybody. TexMacs HAS NO ABILITY TO PRINT/EXPORT/DO SOMETHING USEFULL 
> with images (is eps format). WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. 
>
> It is something funny to read a hot discussion on how to compile it under 
> MacOS or any other OS. WHY DO YOU WANT IT???????

First of all I love the way you can type formulas with Texmacs. And 
acctually I am quite sure people who want to be productive don't care 
about the way the buttons look, but from what I understood thats not 
completely the point in the argument.


> All those people probably do not know that the tool they try to port simply is 
> not worth it. 
>
> Do you want to waste your time on an editor that has the following "features"
>
> 1. Costant problems with speller (cannot connect to ispell...)

The broken spellcheking made me stop using texmacs, the fix is easy but 
I couldn't find the place to fix it in the source - the reason is just a 
wrong call of ispell. You would have to set the encoding right for 
ispell or even better do the change to utf8. But since I have almost no 
programming experience I don't know how much work that would be.
> P.S.S.
> If you want some predictable results use plain LaTeX or try LyX if you need 
> some visualization capabilities while you write.
That is, what your communication resulted in for me. I didn't know about 
lyx before, I have to say I like it and I can use spellchecking which I 
need. But for writing formulas(in physics) texmacs is superior ... that 
is a point where I am hoping that you might join forces and combine 
parts (I have no idea if that is possible since you seem to have 
different views on programming).
>

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