authoring math documents (tex?)
Lloyd Kvam
python at venix.com
Tue Jun 12 07:26:02 EDT 2007
]On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:32 -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
>
>
> On 6/11/07, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> 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 being an old ascii
> text guy,
> I did not know what to tell her.
>
> Looking through the available packages I saw
> TeXmacs
> openoffice.org-math
> among others.
>
> Then I realized someone on this list would have useful
> advice.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Lloyd Kvam
> Venix Corp
>
>
> What grade will she be in?
She'll be in a Masters program at Union College.
> Straight LaTeX might not be too hard to learn. There is an IDE for it
> for Linux which might make learning the commands a bit easier. The
> PDF output rendering has improved dramatically in the last handful of
> years. But there's also LyX which is basically a WSYWIG front end to
> LaTeX.
>
> I've never liked the results I get in the word processor software
> packages, but I've never used OpenOffice. If she's inclined to like
> markup languages, LaTeX is the way to go.
>
> -Mike-
>
> --
> "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
> system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
> --- Claire Wolfe
--
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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