Re: OT I just discovered texmacs; wow!
At Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:09:27 -0200,
Rog=E9rio Brito wrote:
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> On Jan 17 2005, William Ballard wrote:
> > Good lord. What an amazing piece of software. It's actually an amazin=
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> > general purpose word processor. It's the first time I've been able to =
> > stomach Emacs-like or Tex-like things because it's not horribly preciou=
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> > or mind-numbingly ugly on screen.
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> Hummm, I'm probably going to try it sometime in the future, when things g=
et
> slighly less hectic.
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> BTW, I'm currently using GNU Emacs + AUCTeX + RefTeX and I have
> preview-latex installed, but I don't use this last package yet. My life h=
as
> been so much easier after I've been pointed to the direction of AUCTeX.
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> This is an amazing mode for people that have to type some math. I wish th=
at
> AUCTeX were the default (La)TeX mode for GNU Emacs (I've heard that it is
> standard with XEmacs, but I've never tried this one).
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> Actually, AUCTeX is so amazing that I've installed it for some friends and
> told them the basics of getting LaTeX being used and most of them say that
> it is like playing "fill in the blanks", when comparing it with the
> standard way of typing every command (and its closing mate, if it happens
> to have one).
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> Highly recommended also.
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For most things lyx can make latex even simpler. Its what you would call a =
what
you see is almost what you get editor front end to latex (looks a bit like =
word,
but the final output is processed through latex).
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