Other software TeXmacs cooperates with
In order to run TeXmacs, you should have installed a TeX distribution on your system, as well as the Guile/Scheme extension language. Below, we will shortly describe some other programs, which may cooperate with TeXmacs, although they are not really essential.
In order to display images TeXmacs relies on the ghostscript program. This program makes it possible to display postscripts graphics in Xwindows applications. Other programs like tiff2ps, pnmtops, giftopnm, etc. are used to convert other image formats into postscript.
The ghostview program is a popular postscript file viewer based on ghostscript. It may be used in combination with TeXmacs for previewing documents before you print them.
The xfig program can be used for creating technical pictures, which may be included in TeXmacs documents. A nice feature of xfig is that you may include LaTeX formulas in pictures. Furthermore, this feature may be used in combination with TeXmacs, which will call LaTeX to transform the LaTeX formula into postscript.