For drawings I just use a graphical editor that can output TeX or EPS (or roll my own - but haven't needed that in many years). For text TeXworks with its side by side display of raw text and formatted output provides quick feedback to get some formatting details right. Switching to XeTeX also means I can use Unicode and not some ugly transliteration. With this setup I can focus on content for the most part.
On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:42 AM, John Stalker <[email protected]> wrote: >> come to think of it, contemporary layout restrictions did rob us of >> Fermat's own proof of his theorem. >> more seriously, yes, of course you're going to have to select a formatting >> system that can >> cope with what you need to express. equations are one thing. the things >> that never, ever work well >> for me in computer-assisted typesetting are drawing, unless they are very >> simple or i am very lucky. > > For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript. Which leads > me to a complaint about both TeX and troff. Both will happily typeset > whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them > to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams. > > -- > John Stalker > School of Mathematics > Trinity College Dublin > tel +353 1 896 1983 > fax +353 1 896 2282 >
