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
>
>
> >


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