Thanks, all of you. Jason seems to sum up your views about LaTeX: There is no better program, or collection of programs (LaTeX is more a collection than a single application), for typesetting math.
We had no idea that other people valued LaTeX highly. Now I'm going to look at LaTeX plug-ins to see what is out there. Any suggestions of what plug-ins to look at? - Aime Dave Fancella wrote: > I've acquired a preference for txt2tags, which will output LaTeX as > one of its formats. You can also put raw LaTeX in there if you need > to. ;) I use that when I have to put math in anything (although I'm > slowly creating txt2tags macros that do the conversion for me, with > the hope of some day writing a python script to scan for those and > render images for other targets, like xhtml). > > Dave > > Visit my website! > http://www.davefancella.com > > Also, I'm currently looking for a job. So while you're at my website, > look at my resume! > http://www.davefancella.com/resume/dave.html > > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Steven G. Harms <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm with Jason on this, nothing touches LaTeX for beautiful >> formatting: résumés, mathematical equations, and foreign languages >> fare better in this format than all others. >> >> An additional bonus is that it uses ASCII to represent more complex >> letter forms, this means that you can check your document into git and >> still have 'diff' do something useful. >> >> Being old != being dead. Here in Austin, Bruce Williams has written a >> Rails plugin for TeX-ifying Rails output (RTeX|http:// >> rtex.rubyforge.org/) and I have written plugins for Textmate to speed >> the typing of Latin characters. I think, as Jason said, the solution >> may be finding a more extensible editor that puts some programming >> intelligence into the creation of LaTeX mathematical sets. Emacs, of >> course, can easily be expanded to meet this need but I use Textmate + >> my custom additions. Investing just a little bit of time in building >> these programmatic interfaces will save tons of time down the line. >> LatinStudent, my Textmate bundle is on github at >> http://github.com/sgharms/latintools/tree/master. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 9, 3:39 pm, "Jason (orangepetal.com)" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> LaTeX is *not* old in the sense of being outdated. :) >>> >>> There is no better program, or collection of programs (LaTeX is more a >>> collection than a single application), for typesetting math. >>> >>> He might consider trying different editors, if he isn't happy with his >>> current method. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jason >>> >>> On Mar 9, 3:04 pm, Aimee Ronn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> My husband is devoted to LaTeX because it prints his mathematical >>>> equations and expressions so beautifully. However LaTeX is old. Do you >>>> know of a program that does this better? >>>> >>>> - Aimee >>>> > > > > > > -- Aimee Ronn | Knowbility Web Master | [email protected] | 512-305-0310 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
