I'm In. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Owen Dall wrote:
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> I don't care about Word. Been a nightmare with it or OpenOffice. For the
>> next one someone recommended Lyx, but I don't have a clue how to use it.
>>
>> What do you suggest?
>>
>>
> LaTeX is still a major presence in the space, and it has the advantage of
> being open-source, cross-platform and more amenable to version control (.tex
> files are plain text). Pygments integration (for automatic syntax
> highlighting in code examples) is also a huge win.
>
> There's a bit of a learning curve, to be sure, but anybody who can read
> structured markup can pretty much figure out what's going on. For instance,
> here's a short document (from small2e.tex, one of the sample files):
>
> @@@
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
>
>
> \section{Simple Text}
>
> Words are separated by one or more spaces. Paragraphs are separated by
> one or more blank lines. The output is not affected by adding extra
> spaces or extra blank lines to the input file.
>
> Double quotes are typed like this: ``quoted text''.
> Single quotes are typed like this: `single-quoted text'.
>
> Long dashes are typed as three dash characters---like this.
>
> Emphasized text is typed like this: \emph{this is emphasized}.
> Bold text is typed like this: \textbf{this is bold}.
>
> \subsection{A Warning or Two}
>
> If you get too much space after a mid-sentence period---abbreviations
> like etc.\ are the common culprits)---then type a backslash followed by
> a space after the period, as in this sentence.
>
> Remember, don't type the 10 special characters (such as dollar sign and
> backslash) except as directed! The following seven are printed by
> typing a backslash in front of them: \$ \& \# \% \_ \{ and \}.
> The manual tells how to make other symbols.
>
> \end{document}
> @@@
>
> You also get automatic table-of-contents stuff, figure numbering, etc and
> even conversion to HTML if the right styles are used. You can even do
> include processing, so that Rapid Rails (for instance) could be a collection
> of files, one tutorial per file.
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Thanks,
Owen
Owen Dall
Barquin International
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