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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