At Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:17:36 +0300, Yosef Leibovich wrote: > > Hi, > I wish to write a mathematical book to be published (think Academon > publication for instance, real book should be produced) (sollutions for > questions in Misler's excellent book for Infinistimal Calculus BTW). I > want to use open-source sollution however I think I might have no such > oprions. I thought of the following options: > 1) OpenOffice, > pros: WYSIWYG, easy text styling (one can define h1/2/3 and normal text) > good equation insertion. > cons: Horrible hebrew+english handling (fixing up a f(x) is no > picnic...), no one uses it, so I except no support from publicator > 2) Latex, > pros: very easy styling and macroing (I can define answers and question, > and decide later where to place them with a simple script), nice hebrew > support. > cons: aplying new fonts should be problematic. Many hebrew related bugs > (cutting equations wrongfully) I assume there will be some support for > it but I'm not sure how much. > 3) MS-Word, > pros: Very convinient method for embedding hebrew with English, > extremely excellent support in all aspects (embedding different equation > handler), new versions also do styles very nicely > cons: Equation writing is obnoxious (click on the sign you desire), > non-opensource. > My questions are: > Will anything-other-than MS-Word will be accepted by publications (I've > never written a mathematical book so I've no idea what are they using > (heard of Quark but not sure what it is) > Is there any other method I missed for editing Hebrew mathematical > texts, opensource or not. > What do you think is the best options for me, it seems that, sadly, > MS-Word beats all other participants with one hand tied, > Thanks > Elazar Leibovich >
I would go with lyx (it exports and compiles using latex). I remember having some problems with mixed Hebrew English titles, but other then that it was OK (don't really use it with Hebrew). For math work, it makes handling the equations easier (or use emacs with preview latex or whizzytex, not as easy, but gives you good feedback if you've done things right). I know of a few people in the TAU math department that write Hebrew + math exercises in Hebrew without problems (mostly raw latex with the word latex editor, forgot its name) Changing fonts is not that difficult (I can send you examples if you want), although you really shouldn't be playing with that (maybe except setting a true type font) All but one people I know wouldn't touch word for writing math if their life depended on it. If you do, don't even think of doing it with word equation, go for equation editor or you will be cursing the day you were born ;-) Word has a very big problem though with moving documents between computers, especially when math is involved. The only person I know that uses word (and equation editor) for math always exports to PDF (using acrobat) when he wants to give it to someone else. I don't know OO but from what little experience I have with it, it looks better then word for math work. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
