Which platform is he on? Mac? Linux? That other one?
On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Aimee Ronn wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
