They should all be available via cygwin, if nothing else. Also, a lot of "plug-ins" are just style files and run anywhere your LaTeX distribution runs. ;)
I don't have any specific recommendations, just throwing that out there for you so you don't worry about platform compatibility any more than absolutely necessary. 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 10:12 PM, Aimee Ronn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
