2 What is Muse?

Emacs Muse (also known as “Muse” or “Emacs-Muse”) is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing documents and publishing them to various output formats.

Muse consists of two main parts: an enhanced text-mode for authoring documents and navigating within Muse projects, and a set of publishing styles for generating different kinds of output.

What makes Muse distinct from other text-publishing systems is a modular environment, with a rather simple core, in which "styles" are derived from to create new styles. Much of Muse's overall functionality is optional. For example, you can use the publisher without the major-mode, or the mode without doing any publishing; or if you don't load the Texinfo or LaTeX modules, those styles won't be available.

The Muse codebase is a departure from emacs-wiki.el version 2.44. The code has been restructured and rewritten, especially its publishing functions. The focus in this revision is on the authoring and publishing aspects, and the "wikiness" has been removed as a default behavior (available in the optional muse-wiki module). CamelCase words are no longer special by default.

One of the principal aims in the development of Muse is to make it very easy to produce good-looking, standards-compliant documents.