[Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread arg501
Is there anything for writing LaTeX and publishing into postscript/PDF or something equivalent?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread Michał Masłowski
Is there anything for writing LaTeX and publishing into postscript/PDF or something equivalent? There is LaTeX (in TeXLive packages). PDF files can be generated using pdflatex, lualatex or xelatex (or dvipdfmx, although it's probably less comfortable). PostScript is usually made using dvips

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread lazinsli
Tex Live provides a great All-in-One Solution.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: Triskel 5.5 crashes after login every now and then

2012-07-24 Thread Andrew Lindley
On 23/07/12 22:14, igor.zo...@tatz.com.ua wrote: I have disabled Nepomuk and Akonadi. I'm not at home right now, will post more details soon. You have to edit certain files to prevent Akonadi being loaded at start, that's all I remember for sure. Thanks, just knowing that meant I found this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Packages Lyx and Gummi would seem appropriate. No first hand experience of neither.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread magicbanana
You forgot about the option of compiling with 'latex' and then convert the DVI with 'dvipdf'. The huge difference with 'pdflatex' is in the image formats you can include. They are EPS with 'latex' and PDF, PNG, JPEG or GIF with 'pdflatex'. Of course EPS and PDF are preferred (unless we are

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread em9002
I've used Lyx in the past. It's very user-friendly. You don't even have to know LaTeX in order to use it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 17:24 +0200 на 24.07.2012 (вт), magicban...@gmail.com написа: The huge difference with 'pdflatex' is in the image formats you can include. AFAIK pdflatex also supports bookmarks and other PDF related attributes of the document, which dvips cannot create. I might be wrong though.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 10:47 +0200 на 24.07.2012 (вт), Michał Masłowski написа: Is there anything for writing LaTeX and publishing into postscript/PDF or something equivalent? Or are you asking for an editor? I use Emacs with AUCTeX, there are many other solutions. Emacs with latex-mode is also not bad, if you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need something for writing/publishing LaTeX

2012-07-24 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez
El 24/07/12 07:21, mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi escribió: Packages Lyx and Gummi would seem appropriate. No first hand experience of neither. I have very good experiences with Lyx. Easy yet powerful. -- Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez Presidente Asociación de Software Libre del

[Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread tegskywalker
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-inks-patent-deal-with-service-provider-using-linux-servers-701498/ First it was Amazon in 2010 for their datacenters and now Microsoft is licensing technology that they own the patents when it is used in a Linux datacenter. Of course no one is disclosing

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread Rick C. Hodgin
Microsoft has not given a list for the devs to then code around. They're just seeking money targets. Evil. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin Original Message From: tegskywal...@hotmail.com Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 05:15 PM To: trisquel-users@listas.trisquel.info CC: Subject:

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread mikko . viinamaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Microsoft ps. zdnet is rubbish

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread Rick C. Hodgin
When I was a journalist, they were called paid shills. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin Original Message From: mikko.viinam...@students.turkuamk.fi Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 05:32 PM To: trisquel-users@listas.trisquel.info CC: Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread kendell clark
This is disturbing. MS isn't supposed to have any part in linux other than the code it contributed to the linux kernel who knows when. This is part of why I use linux, to get away from the MS corporate structure. Now they're involved in linux? Sighs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread kendell clark
fud? INteresting. I seem to have fallen for it for a few minutes. NOw to go bang my head against the nearest hard object to knocck some sense into me, rofl. On 07/24/2012 04:48 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: When I was a journalist, they were called paid shills. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin

Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread Rick C. Hodgin
In my opinion, the worst part about it is the degree to which they're being sneaky about what patents they hold. Almost extortionist. I believe Linux and GNU will be in real trouble this decade, and the face of free software will change by this movement already underfoot here, as seen in

[Trisquel-users] Destroyed my mailbox in Thunderbird

2012-07-24 Thread Igor . Zobin
I don't know what happened, but my mailbox doesn't work anymore. I can't receive messages and I can't send them. Not even sure if this is going to get posted. The error I keep getting is something along these lines: INBOX.Sent not found. It started after I accidently pulled the Inbox

Re: [Trisquel-users] Destroyed my mailbox in Thunderbird

2012-07-24 Thread tegskywalker
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Re: [Trisquel-users] What are these patents that MS owns in Linux? More and more people are paying.

2012-07-24 Thread alonivtsan
I'm guessing: FAT32 patents. Most Android devices use this partition format (at least for microSD cards) so they must pay Microsoft patent royalties or use an open format instead such as ext2 and supply drivers for Windows and Mac which they probably won't do as it won't work out of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Destroyed my mailbox in Thunderbird

2012-07-24 Thread Ivaylo Valkov
В 03:08 +0200 на 25.07.2012 (ср), igor.zo...@tatz.com.ua написа: I can't receive messages and I can't send them [...] posted. The error I keep getting is something along these lines: INBOX.Sent not found. The webmail interface to my email doesn't work either, all messages are deleted