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Re: note-taking and PDF annotation: jarnal



David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:

> 
> Do these tools seem appropriate for the increasingly-misnamed
> typesetting task?

I think that they fit in with the other things in that task. 

> 
> What about renaming typesetting to "document production"?  

I agree that typesetting is too specific for what it currently contains.
As I see it, at the moment the task currently contains packages useful
for writing a scientific paper / poster and perhaps a talk. 

These can be roughly broken down into:

Bibliography management

Editors suitable for writing papers (eg support for Latex)
Wordprocessor
DTP (eg for posters )

Tools for producing figures - vector drawing, but also latex tools -
metapost for example, and specialist packages for drawing feynman
diagrams[1].

Packages for presentations/slideshows (latex and openoffice).

Along with supporting packages to view documents (xpdf, gv).

I think that packages to annotate pdfs, as well as packages to create
a bibliography from a pdf would fit together with these.

Chris

[1] Though arguably this ought to be in physics (or perhaps just
particle physics - were that task to be created).






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