Most people now use WYSIWYG word processors for business. So why won't scientists & mathematicians use WYSIWYG scientific word processors such as TeXmacs?
To those that already know LaTeX, I would be surprised if TeXmacs offered a productivity increase. And LaTeX is actually taught in universities, not TeXmacs. So I am sure TeXmacs is fine if you use it to write your first documents, but there seem to be very few scientists or mathematicians that are exposed to TeXmacs before LaTex.
The learning curve for TeXmacs is not that high. You don't need to be taught to use it.
Is there a decent LyX TeXmacs comparison? My Google-fu is failing me.
LyX just has a rough approximation for editing to make it less painful and uses LaTeX/TeX to generate the output.
For scientific publications, you may be required to use TeX, so LyX might be preferable there.
For homework, there's no reason why you can't use TeXmacs.
I wonder about the underlying technology. I've been longing for an editor that could handle special characters so things looked more like math.
I've formatted the YC application we have, and put it in here. It looks really professional. That's quite an achievement, given the conversational language we used. ^^
I then sent the whole thing around as a .tm file, so now the rest of the team has no choice. Viral technology yay!