<\body> <\itemize> General <\itemize-minus> What is ? For what typical purposes do people use \ ? What Operation Systems are supported? What are the system requirements? I have a question, where should I ask it? Is it free Software? System Appearance and Behavior <\itemize-minus> hangs when opening a document for a whle and my disk is being filled with files? How can I see the or code corresponding to what I see on the screen? Why don't you use a common graphical user interface like GTK for your scrollbars, menus, and so on? Trying to start remotely over a ssh connection, I get an error, while xclock works without a problem? Usage <\itemize-minus> How to mark/select a whole paragraph? Spell checking always starts at the beginning of the document? Microtypography <\itemize-minus> There is too much space after an abbreviation like or ? How to add unbreakable space? Legacy Questions <\question> What is ? <\answer> GNU <\itemize-dot> is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by and GNU Emacs. allows you to write structured documents via a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user friendly interface. lets you create new styles. implements high-quality typesetting algorithms and fonts, which helps you to produce professionally looking documents. is suitable as an interface for computer algebra systems, as the high typesetting quality goes through for automatically generated formulas. can be highly customized as it supports the Guile/Scheme extension language. lets you export your documents to PS and PDF and offers both import and export to HTML, , Scheme, Verbatim and Xml. We would very much appreciate your for writing and improving converters for documents. <\question> For what typical purposes do people use \ ? <\answer> \ can be used for <\itemize> Books and Articles. They can be written fully within . If your publisher requires a certain style for an article, then as a last step you can export your document to and make the final modifications there. Presentations. Interface to Computer Algebra Systems. Webpages. For example the webpage is maintained as documents, which are exported to .\ <\question> What Operation Systems are supported? <\answer> can be easily installed on all major systems. There are and Debian packages as well as binaries available for . For Mac there is a package. For , a package is in preparation, but so far you have to compile yourself, as it is the case for more exotic systems.\ Work is in progress to rewrite the graphical user interface of , so that it becomes more portable. Your might actually be very useful here. <\question> What are the system requirements? is still useable here, although not overly reactive. > <\question> I have already learned / and , do I have to learn all over again? -knowledge can be reused. For example, you can start a section by typing or you get > by typing . Note that there are even shorter ways provided, for example gives you an alpha as well, so you might want to migrage after a while. Styles like article, book or seminar, as known from , are provided as well. Furthermore, many shortcuts like for saving a file, or for undo will work. > <\question> I have a question, where should I ask it? user mailing list. Search this list and the FAQ beforehand, to ensure your question was not asked before.> <\question> Is it free Software? falls under the GNU public licence. > <\question> hangs when opening a document for a whle and my disk is being filled with files? calls in order to generate fonts which are not yet present. The first time you launch , many fonts may therefore have to be generated. In order to avoid this, you may download some .> <\question> How can I see the or code corresponding to what I see on the screen? . Indeed, is not on /, although it does support (not yet perfect) to and from . Furthermore, in theory at least, there is actually no need anymore to look at something like the source, since is guaranteed to be fully WYSIWYG. Conversion to may only be useful, when transmitting an accepted paper to the publisher of a journal.> <\question> Why don't you use a common graphical user interface like GTK for your scrollbars, menus, and so on? <\answer> When I (Joris) started to develop about four years ago, the common graphical user interfaces were not as good as nowadays. Moreover, I wanted the GUI to support some special features, like fonts in the menus. Nevertheless, now that graphical user interfaces did become much better, I plan to switch to guile-gtk as soon as possible. Using Guile-gtk in combination with has three main advantages: <\enumerate> One has full access to the GTK widget set, which includes menus, scrollable windows, file choosers, iconbars, etc. Guile-gtk provides you with a very flexible and customizable way to use these widgets. The incorporation of Guile-gtk in should be natural, since already supports the / extension language. <\question> Trying to start remotely over a ssh connection, I get an error, while xclock works without a problem? <\answer> If you get an error message including the following: then execute on the remote machine and make sure your /etc/hosts file is sound, it contains the line and the IP information about the local and remote machine. <\question> How to mark/select a whole paragraph? <\question> Spell checking always starts at the beginning of the document? <\question> There is too much space after an abbreviation like or ? thinks, that the sentence ends after the dot in the abbreviation. To resolve this , mark the abbreviation and press . To care for this while writing: .> <\question> How to add unbreakable space? Remaining legacy questions: <\question> A publisher sent me a giant preamble I'm supposed to put in in order to prepare a book for them. What is the best way of putting it in and figuring if it will work? <\answer> I recommand to convert the preamble to and to put the result in a style file. However, the result will probably be disappointing, because conversion between / and is not yet perfect and style files are particularly problematic. What you can also do is write a style file by your own which supports the major extra constructs you want to use from the editors style file. When you convert your book to , you next use the editors style. Some layout will probably need to be redone at that stage, but this should actually be the work of the editor... Please look in the help for more information about convertions between and . <\initial> <\collection> <\references> <\collection> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >