Re: Re: Which editor do you use for math articles
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- Subject: [mg95595] Re: [mg95552] Re: Which editor do you use for math articles
- From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:01:46 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: LANL
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 04:47:31 Sjoerd C. de Vries wrote: [...] > > LaTeX had all kinds of problems. Figures never appeared where you > wanted them. Thus the h! flag. Most of the GUI frontends to LaTeX now allow for easy specification of where you want the figures, and the degree of their "floatiness". > Quite often they ended up bunched together at the end of > a chapter. You needed a kludge like the here.sty style file. Using > different fonts was next to impossible. LaTeX2e that appeared later > improved that (so I have heard). However, years later, when I tried to > typeset my plain LaTeX based thesis once again, I couldn't get it to > compile with the then current 2e version. So much for compatibility. This may still be a problem. > Equations of more than average complexity easily filled up half a page > of code rubbish and were a pain to debug. No problem with, e.g., LyX and its "instant preview". > Spellchecking less than > basic. Try to write a multiple language peace and spellcheck that in > LaTeX. This is no problem now. > Virtually no picture tools. No tracked changes. No > collaboration tools etc etc. All of that is quite easy now. > I don't want to start a flame war. Just balancing the discussion > somewhat. I am well aware of many or most of the problems of Word. > > Cheers -- Sjoerd > > Points taken! All of the "desktop publishing" paradigms can *really* be worked on. -- ========================================================== Curtis Osterhoudt cfo at remove_this.lanl.and_this.gov PGP Key ID: 0x4DCA2A10 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ==========================================================