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Re: Re: LaTex on a Mac

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• Subject: [mg18584] Re: [mg18548] Re: LaTex on a Mac
• From: "Carl K.Woll" <carlw at fermi.phys.washington.edu>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:01:22 -0400
• Organization: Department of Physics
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Hi Jens,

Below you say that you dislike Mathematica because you can't input formulas using only
the keyboard. I input formulas all the time, and I never use the mouse. So, I'm curious.
What kinds of things do you do that require the use of a mouse? Perhaps there are some
shortcuts you are unaware of?

Carl Woll
Dept of Physics
U of Washington

Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I personal like TeX more to write documents even when the expression
> formating in Math 4.0 looks better than ever.
>
> The first reason is: I like to have my hands on the keyboard and I hate
> it to
> switch between the mous and the keyboard. It is much to slow, it breaks
> the flow
> of ideas .. ok I hate it
> The second reason is I'm much more handy to setup some (La)TeX macros
> than to make
> StyleBoxe[] + Palettes to enter the boxes fast (with a mouse).
> The third reason is: LaTeX can better deal with meta-informations like
> table of contents, index, literatur data bases ..
>
> If you become a bit handy in LaTeX you will not type formulas with
> anything
> else.
>
> Regards
>   Jens
>
> "William B. Marks" wrote:
> >
> > Just getting started on LaTex.  So I'm writing the Mathematica group that I know.
> > Maybe someone has a tip on an alternative to Mathematica for an original
> > language.  That's because Mathematica on my PPC seems too buggy to rely on.  There
> > may be a tried and tested alternative.  I have OzTex to check  my coded
> > text.  If I don't get a better idea I will code the text in LaTex myself by
> > hand, and use Expressionist to code the equations.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Marks

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  • Re: LaTex on a Mac
    • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>