It has some severe limitations if you really want to exploit what TeX allows you to do with layouting.
That being said, most documents don't need to (ab)use TeX to that extent. TeXmacs is fine for probably over 99% of actual documents.
That being said, most documents don't need to (ab)use TeX to that extent. TeXmacs is fine for probably over 99% of actual documents.
Although TeXmacs plus its Scheme extension language is much more powerful than TeXmacs alone.
I've mostly used TeXmacs to quickly draft documents without having to deal with setting up a TeX environment. Once I am happy with my drafts, I write these up in LaTeX.
Hopefully, in time TeXmacs will be more universally accepted that a post-writeup in LaTeX will not be necessary.
If I am not mistken, TeXmacs can export into LaTeX directly.