Partially off-topic: TeXmacs (front-end to Sage and StackExchange proposal)

[Giovanni Piredda]

Dear all,

two brief pieces of information about TeXmacs, one in-topic and one off-topic.

For those we do not know what TeXmacs is: it is a system for writing that is at the same time structured and WYSIWYG, completely programmable through Scheme. More information, and the program for download, can be found at texmacs.org

Said this. 

First the in-topic part of the message.

TeXmacs can be used as a front-end for Sage. As far as I know (I am a user, not a member of the development team, and moreover at this moment I cannot test by myself) the plugin for Sage works on MacOS and Linux, but does not support Windows; I got this information recently on the TeXmacs mailing list (pls see http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users/2019-06/msg00102.html and following thread). For this reason, it would be very nice if someone would look over it and see if it can be made to work (please contact the developers for this: and in general all that I am writing here is *not* as a part of the developers' team but just as a user. But the guess that the developers will appreciate help for the improvement and maintenance of the Sage plugin is a very good one :-)

Independently from the development, I expect that any help on the plugin will be appreciated; e.g. testing the plugin and reporting to the developers if any thing can be improved. Again just a guess from a user but a very good one IMO :-) I think  that from this point of view a message on the TeXmacs mailing list could be a good way to pass the information.

Then the off-topic part of the message.

There is a proposal for a StackExchange TeXmacs website, supported by the TeXmacs developers:

https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121978/texmacs

which will run out of time at the beginning of August. For passing the first stage, it needs about 35 people to upvote 5 questions each (it is better to choose them among the questions that did not yet reach ten upvotes), so to satisfy the criterion of 40 questions with 10 upvotes each; it has already satisfied the criterion of number of people joining the proposal so joining is not critical, but upvoting is.

In conclusion, if you find that GNU TeXmacs merits support, and a StackExchange site for TeXmacs a good idea, you can consider upvoting 5 questions. 

Ciao,

Giovanni