Re: cliff dump

2003-02-24 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 22.02.03 Bob Billson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, David Z Maze penned: As far as beginner's reference material goes, I'd recommend installing the Debian tetex packages and then running 'texdoc lshort', which will bring up a reasonably good

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-24 Thread Amaya
Hugh Saunders dijo: clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? I use latex to generate whatever: rtf, html, pdf... It's crunchy! -- .''`. Girl, you gotta change your crazy ways, you hear me? : :' :Crazy by Aerosmith

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Hampson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 22.02.03 Bob Billson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, David Z Maze penned: As far as beginner's reference material goes, I'd recommend installing the Debian tetex packages and then

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-24 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:32PM +0100, Amaya wrote: Hugh Saunders dijo: clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? I use latex to generate whatever: rtf, html, pdf... It's crunchy! Cool, I prefer crunchy to smooth.

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-22 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:04:46PM +, Giles A. Radford wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:36:36AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? Last time somebody asked me this at university, I hacked up a (very breif, very quick) guide

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-22 Thread David Z Maze
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? latex blurb [from what i have read] says that latex is a set of macros for tex, but i dont really know what tex is apart from that its something to do with typesetting. So is the idea

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-22 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:46:57PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: 'latex' will read in a .tex file and produce a .dvi file; you can view this directly with 'xdvi', or convert it to PostScript with 'dvips'. As far as beginner's reference material goes, I'd recommend installing the Debian tetex

RE: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Sequeira, Tony
-Original Message- hello, im going down to the coast this evening to dump my windows box over the highest cliff i can find, if anyone else from around surreyish needs theres taken, ill pick it up en route... I'll take the box and remove Windows from it! on a more serious

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:19:48PM -, Sequeira, Tony said: on a more serious note M$ word sucks, OOo sucks lyx sucks any more suggestions for what to use to produce coursework? Try Open Office. OOo sucks kind of implies he's tried it... -- Shawn McMahon | If you have

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:19:48PM -, Sequeira, Tony wrote: -Original Message- hello, im going down to the coast this evening to dump my windows box over the highest cliff i can find, if anyone else from around surreyish needs theres taken, ill pick it up en route...

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sequeira, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on a more serious note M$ word sucks, OOo sucks lyx sucks any more suggestions for what to use to produce coursework? Try Open Office. Uhm, OOo *is* OpenOffice. i think vim and html next time... Better still! Eh, I tend to favor

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
on a more serious note M$ word sucks, OOo sucks lyx sucks any more suggestions for what to use to produce coursework? Try Open Office. I believe the 'OOo sucks' part negated that suggestion. :-) -- Nathan Poznick [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, this is Bela's best scene, and he's not

RE: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Sequeira, Tony
Sequeira, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on a more serious note M$ word sucks, OOo sucks lyx sucks any more suggestions for what to use to produce coursework? Try Open Office. Uhm, OOo *is* OpenOffice. I was already corrected offline, pardon me, it IS Friday afternoon.

RE: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Martin_J Carter
begin quote Sequeira, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-21 13:19:48: -Original Message- hello, im going down to the coast this evening to dump my windows box over the highest cliff i can find, if anyone else from around surreyish needs theres taken, ill pick it up en route... Try

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:32:37PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: so i guess what im looking for is a way to produce documents for printing but using a non-graphical environment. [thats why i mention HTML] All i need to be able to do is basic formatting and inserting graphics [graphs and tables

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Bill White
Hello, all. I recently installed GNU TeXmacs. It looked to me to be very useful, though I haven't written a large paper using it yet, and I don't know whether it scales up or not. It seemed better than OOo or uSoft Word, and faster too. On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 13:18, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Hugh! You wrote: * lyx, didnt really give this one much of a chance, v fustraiting to startwith so i guess there is potential there, didnt really like the gui but i tried it because i wanted to try something

Re: cliff dump

2003-02-21 Thread Jason McCarty
Hugh Saunders wrote: clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? latex blurb [from what i have read] says that latex is a set of macros for tex, but i dont really know what tex is apart from that its something to do with typesetting. So is the idea you produce a file