1<TeXmacs|1.99.2> 2 3<style|<tuple|tmdoc|english>> 4 5<\body> 6 <tmdoc-title|Welcome to GNU <TeXmacs>> 7 8 <section|How to get started> 9 10 If you are new to <TeXmacs>, then you might first want to get some 11 information on how to read the documentation. Click 12 <hlink|here|../../main/start/man-conventions.en.tm> with your mouse in 13 order to learn more about the conventions which are used throughout the 14 documentation. You may search for words in the documentation by pressing 15 <no-break><shortcut|(interactive docgrep-in-doc)>. Another important thing 16 you might want to do is to <hlink|configure|../../main/config/man-configuration.en.tm> 17 <TeXmacs> so that it will suit your needs best. 18 19 <section|Information for general users> 20 21 <\itemize> 22 <item>In the <hlink|<menu|Help|Manual>|../../main/man-manual.en.tm> menu, 23 you find the main documentation about how to use <TeXmacs>. The manual is 24 quite complete, but not very detailed. 25 26 <item>In the <hlink|<menu|Help|Reference 27 guide>|../../main/man-reference.en.tm> menu, you find more detailed 28 documentation about the <TeXmacs> format, its primitives and environment 29 variables, and the standard style files. 30 31 <item>In the <hlink|<menu|Help|Tutorial>|../../tutorial/tut-tutorial.en.tm> 32 menu, we have started a <TeXmacs> tutorial. The tutorial is mainly 33 intended for beginners, but the later chapters should also be useful for 34 more experienced users. Unfortunately, the tutorial is not very complete 35 yet. 36 37 <item>The <hlink|<menu|Help|About>|../../about/about.en.tm> menu contains 38 more information about <TeXmacs>, like information about its 39 <hlink|authors|../../about/authors/authors.en.tm>, how to <hlink|contact 40 us|../../about/authors/contact.en.tm>, and 41 <hlink|changes|../../about/changes/changes.en.tm> in different versions 42 of the program. 43 44 <item>Documentation in the form of full books is also available in 45 <menu|Help|full manuals>. In fact, you may compile such books yourself 46 from any help page using <menu|Help|full manuals|Compile book>. This may 47 take a few minutes though. 48 </itemize> 49 50 <section|Contribute to <TeXmacs>> 51 52 One great thing about free software is that you may adapt the software to 53 fit your own needs and share your experiences with others. In fact, this 54 turns out to be far easier than most people think. Therefore you might wish 55 to learn more about how to <hlink|contribute|../../about/contribute/contribute.en.tm> 56 to the <TeXmacs> project. You can also make a 57 <hlink|donation|../../about/contribute/material/donations.en.tm> to us. 58 59 If you want to contribute to <TeXmacs>, or if you want to adapt the program 60 for some particular purpose, then you will find more useful information in 61 the <hlink|<menu|Help|Help us>|../contribute/contribute.en.tm> and 62 <hlink|<menu|Help|Projects>|../projects/projects.en.tm> menus. In 63 <hlink|<menu|Help|Interfacing>|../../devel/plugin/plugin.en.tm> it is 64 explained how to interface <TeXmacs> with other systems. A part of the 65 source code has also been documented in <hlink|<menu|Help|Source 66 code>|../../devel/source/source.en.tm>. 67 68 <tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven> 69 70 <tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 71 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 72 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no 73 Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover 74 Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free 75 Documentation License".> 76</body>