I see, I'm not as familiar with the options on that platform, but the editor is the place where you want to leverage as much power as possible.
emacs: unix editor with a windows port, highly extensible, with high learning curve for writing extensions vim: unix editor, ported to windows, has a slightly less difficult, but less powerful scripting language editpad pro: My g/f uses the lite version to edit CSS and javascript. The pro version has record and playback macro options The trouble with LaTeX is that it's tedious and repetitive, you need an editor that does fast search and replace or regular expression search and replace, something that understands edit column selection, and that understands the notion of "let keystroke X=several actions" (macros). There are many other ways to bell this cat, but these are the most approachable that I can think of. I have actually written my LaTeX documents in M4 macro processing language....but this is getting into highly abstruse arcana, so I'd recommend you focus on the editor. Steven On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Aimee Ronn 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
