Kevin Donnelly schreef: > On Saturday 24 November 2007 13:01, Gavin Chester wrote: >> How about forgetting the ms programs altogether? I remember reading that >> serious academics use latex for math symbols and technical documents. > > LaTeX is certainly worth looking at - see, for instance: > http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial10.html > http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Math > > There is an online LaTeX editor at: > http://www.sciencesoft.at/flashlatex.jsp?lang=en&remove=1 > and an online equation editor at: > http://www.sitmo.com/latex > >> "Lyx is a front end to LaTeX. > <snip> > > I would avoid Lyx in favour of Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net) - it is not > WYSIWYG, but it is much easier to see what LaTeX is doing. Lyx tends to hide > all of this, so you don't really learn LaTeX, and I have had Lyx corrupt > files too. > I second that. Moreover, if you add packages like prosper. you are able to make pdf presentations that run circles around power point. However, it is my experience, that pple using the MS presentation toolkit like ppt and what have you are usually not inclined to invest that extra effort to learn latex.
That's why I have been sitting on my hands during this thread, although I would have liked to make exactly this suggestion. It cures your troubles once and for all. Well, let's be fair, it replaces them by other troubles, but ones you can cope with in this environment. :-) Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
