Re: Equation editors [Was: Re: CUPS]

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>]

scripsit David P James:
> Rob Weir wrote:

> >Have you considered LyX?  It has one of the nicest equation editor's
> >I've seen, plus uses LaTeX for it's rendering back-end.  Eliminates file
> >gratuitous, proprietary file format lock-in forever.
 
> I have, several months ago and just now. I spent an hour trying to 
> figure it out, reading the tutorial, etc. And frankly, I can't stand it. 

Please don't judge (La)TeX by LyX ;)  
LyX's interface didn't do it for me, either.  I just use vim for my
LaTeX instead.

> At any rate both WP and OpenOffice have far easier to use 
> equation editors as far as I am concerned, using the following code in 
> their respective equation editors:
> 
> sigma hat ^2
> 
> and, for OOo;
> 
> hat %sigma^2

How's 

\hat{\sigma}^2

strike you?  That's pure LaTeX unencumbered by LyX's GUI.  

I took the liberty of putting a PDF showing a couple lines from your
prof's notes up at <http://www.public.asu.edu/~tkinias/foo.pdf>, to give
you an idea of how LaTeX renders math.  The source is there, too, at
<http://www.public.asu.edu/~tkinias/foo.tex>.

To be sure, LaTeX has a bit of a learning curve, but if you master it
you'll never want to muck with WP again for math.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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