Owen Densmore wrote: > So the question to all you LaTeX folks, could you let us know which > of the many implementations you use, and how you use it? > TeX is very roughly like Linux distributions in the sense there is a lot of stuff from the community and then particular assemblies of it for different settings. See http://www.ctan.org/starter.html for more.
> From what I can tell, the two approaches are integrated edit/view > systems, vs your basic text editor using a standalone viewer. What > to FRIAMer TeX'ers like?? `Word processing' systems like Scientific Workplace (http://www.mackichan.com) have their fans, but `real' TeX gurus write TeX and LaTeX like programmers write code. Of course, there's a wide range of skill for TeXies as there is for programmers, so there's plenty of cargo-cult TeX and stylesheets, which I suspect explains why integrated view/edit systems have had limited success. I suppose there is plenty of cruddy HTML/CSS or XML/XSLT/CSS that still manage to mix up presentation and content as badly.. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
