A quick tour of TeXmacs
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as the quickest way to see what TeXmacs can do, as a WYSIWYG alternative to LaTeX.
What it is
A four-minute tour of the TeXmacs scientific editor, showing math typing, figures, citations, a drawing tool, document styles, HTML export, presentations and animations.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec amichail · 2022-01 · on “Ask HN: What would be a better name for TeXmacs?”
I'm not a TeXmacs developer but I am a fan. The software is amazing as you can see from this video: [this video]
Recommends amichail · 2021-12 · on “LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes”
Have you tried the WYSIWYG TeXmacs? (It's not based on TeX nor emacs but is inspired by both.) See: [this video]
Recommends mgubi · 2023-01 · on “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]”
Have you considered TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org)? See here a short video describing its features: [this video] and the twitter feed for more examples: [LINK]
Recommends lejalv · 2023-03 · on “Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support”
Not really what you asked for -- but there is an interactive modern typesetter that is programmable and works on trees. It's called TeXmacs - you may want to check out what it can do -- [this video]
Cites plafl · 2021-06 · on “Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy”
I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: [this video]