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Re: Re: Which editor do you use for math articles

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• Subject: [mg95544] Re: [mg95494] Re: Which editor do you use for math articles
• From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:46:01 -0500 (EST)
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• Reply-to: drmajorbob at longhorns.com

I downloaded LyX last night and so far have mixed reactions... I'm used to
editing WYSIWYG in NeoOffice. It's weird seeing the text spaced all
funky-like (non-proportional fonts or something like that) UNTIL you  
decide to make it printable or PDF.

I'll spend a little time, though, and see if I can get used to it.

Bobby

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:45:39 -0600, Steve Luttrell
<steve at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk> wrote:

> For live documents nothing comes close to Mathematica. However, if you  
> need
> to use a widely-accepted standard then LaTeX is the best solution. If you
> like to edit your LaTeX code directly then the WinEdt/MiKTeX combination  
> is
> quite usable, but I much prefer to use a GUI to hide the LaTeX code. With
> this in mind, for the past 5 years or so I have used Publicon
> (www.wolfram.com/products/publicon) to create LaTeX files, but Publicon  
> is
> still at version 1.0.1 five years after its original release in mid 2004  
> so
> I am concerned about its future. Recently, I have been looking at the  
> free
> Lyx (http://wiki.lyx.org), and after a month of playing around with it I
> have nothing but praise for this wonderful piece of software. Also,
> transferring Publicon->Lyx via LaTeX seems to be robust. One could  
> create a
> semi-live document by hot-linking the LaTeX to demonstrations (or  
> whatever)
> running in Mathematica Player. For instance, static diagrams in the  
> document
> could have interactive counterparts that run in Player.
>



-- 
DrMajorBob at longhorns.com

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