"Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:04:19 +0100: > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", > > > as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that > > > latex thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some > > > reading up on it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do > > > all that with no window system. Does anyone here use it on a regular > > > basis, and if so, how hard is it to use, setup, print, etc? I'm > > > having thoughts of perhaps writing papers this semester in emacs and > > > if this thing... Well, let's just say I'm trying to have an open mind > > > about things. I'm trying not to summarily dismiss thing just because > > > I don't know what they are, or, are not familiar with them. > > I used LaTeX way back in 1991 and found it pretty easy to learn and use. The > results blew the pants off anything else at the time, and I suspect would > still blow the pants off anything windoes could muster today. OK, it's not > WYSIWYG but the results are very professional.
I'm using it for all my papers, my thesis, and I used it for a talk I did last week, and a talk I will be doing later this week - look at pdfscreen. Pdfscreen is *purty*. Looks far nicer than powerpoint, in my humble opinion. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ cat ~/.signature CPU time limit exceeded (core dumped) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
