Configuring TeXmacs

When starting TeXmacs for the first time, the program automatically configures itself in a way which it thinks to be most suitable for you. For instance, TeXmacs will attempt to determine your systems settings for the language and the paper type of your printer. However, the automatic configuration may sometimes fail or you may want to use an alternative configuration. In that case, you should go to the Edit→Preferences menu and specify your preferences.

In particular, we recommend you to configure the desired “look and feel” of TeXmacs. By default, we use the Emacs look and feel, which ensures a limited compatibility of the TeXmacs keyboard shortcuts with those of Emacs. Also, TeXmacs comes with a powerful keyboard shortcut system, which attempts to optimize the use of the modifier keys like shift and control on your keyboard. However, on many X Window systems these modifier keys are not well configured, so that you may wish to redo this yourself. More details can be found in the section about the configuration of TeXmacs.