Creating, saving and loading documents

When launching TeXmacs without any command line options, the editor automatically creates a new document for you. You may also create a new document yourself using File→New. Newly created documents do not yet carry a name. In order to give them a name, you should click on File→Save as.

We recommend you to give documents a name immediately after their creation; this will avoid you to loose documents. It is also recommended to specify the global settings for your document when necessary. First of all, you may specify a document style like article, book or seminar using Document→Style. If you write documents in several languages, then you may want to specify the language of your document using Document→Language. Similarly, you may specify a paper type using Document→Page→Size.

After modifying your document, you may save it using File→Save. Old documents can be retrieved using File→Load. Notice that you can edit several documents in the same window using TeXmacs; you can switch between different buffers using Go.