Our platform is Windows XP. You know, that "other one". <grin> My husband is at U.T. and uses PCs.
Aimee Steven Harms wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
