Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)
richard lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:
> On Sunday 27 June 2004 05:21, cecil wrote:
>> Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession",
>> as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that
>> latex thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some
>> reading up on it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do
>> all that with no window system. Does anyone here use it on a regular
>> basis, and if so, how hard is it to use, setup, print, etc? I'm
>> having thoughts of perhaps writing papers this semester in emacs and
>> if this thing... Well, let's just say I'm trying to have an open mind
>> about things. I'm trying not to summarily dismiss thing just because
>> I don't know what they are, or, are not familiar with them.
>
> I recently did this. I was really daunted at first by the idea of
> learning latex, but it turns out to be a lot less terrible in fact.
> Get the vim-latexsuite package and give yourself a bit of time to play.
[...]
Err, he said emacs, in which case he'd want to install the auctex
package...
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