Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)
"Rich" <hillhead@btinternet.com> said on Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:04:19 +0100:
> > > 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 used LaTeX way back in 1991 and found it pretty easy to learn and use. The
> results blew the pants off anything else at the time, and I suspect would
> still blow the pants off anything windoes could muster today. OK, it's not
> WYSIWYG but the results are very professional.
I'm using it for all my papers, my thesis, and I used it for a talk I
did last week, and a talk I will be doing later this week - look at
pdfscreen.
Pdfscreen is *purty*.
Looks far nicer than powerpoint, in my humble opinion.
--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
cat ~/.signature
CPU time limit exceeded (core dumped)
Reply to: