Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
]On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:32 -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: On 6/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-12 Thread Ric Werme
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:38:47PM -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
Thanks very much for your suggestions. On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:07 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: If she is doing a mathematically intensive paper, hands down, use LaTeX. (Or LyX) The other word processors don't even come close. Well the consensus seems to be that LaTeX is the way to go. Her

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-12 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much for your suggestions. On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:07 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: If she is doing a mathematically intensive paper, hands down, use LaTeX. (Or LyX) The other word processors don't even come close. I used LaTeX

authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Lloyd Kvam
My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her Math papers, and being an old ascii text guy, I did not know what

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread mike ledoux
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:38:47PM -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Costolo
On 6/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her Math papers, and

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:38, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her Math papers,

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Bruce Labitt
If she is doing a mathematically intensive paper, hands down, use LaTeX. (Or LyX) The other word processors don't even come close. One can find document styles that match professional publications if that is desired. There is a learning curve, of course, but the quality of the typesetting

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

2007-06-11 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 18:38 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she should use for writing her Math