- Updated: February 25, 2026
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GNU TeXmacs Launches Free Scientific Editing Platform with WYSIWYG Interface
Welcome to GNU TeXmacsAboutLearnContribute GNU TeXmacs: your scientific text editor High quality mathematical typesetting Multiple language support Interfaces for computational software Integrated picture editor Integrated presentation mode And much more. Quick tour The Jolly Writer GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents using a wysiwyg interface.It provides a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content, slides, etc. TeXmacs can be used as a graphical front-end for many systems in computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml or Scheme format and printed as Pdf or Postscript files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/Mathml. Notice that TeXmacs is not based on TeX/LaTeX.Its rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. New styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. Runs on all major Unix platforms, MacOS, and Windows. © 1999–2019 by Joris van der Hoeven This webpage is part of GNU TeXmacs and the larger GNU project.Verbatim copying and distribution of it is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111, USA. With the support of CNRS. TeXmacsWelcomeGalleryNewsChangesPlansAuthorsDownloadSourcesGNU LinuxMacOSWindowsOtherLicenseLearnVideosTutorialsManualsFAQMailing listsForumResourcesContributeContributeTeamDonateDevelopDocumentTranslatePlug-insShareContactFeedbackBugsSuggestionsPatchesMailing lists []