On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo
I'm not sure about a serial console, but definitely a VT on the machine. It uses the ASCII Art library. > when I do. I only use firefox when I need java or images + https. I've > tried some other text-based browsers supposed to do frames and stuff but > I couldn't get them to work. The man pages said the interface was > intutitive. I couldn't even intuit the help. > Heh. I occasionally use lynx, though stick to firefox primarily. > I remember when I was first transitioning from OS/2 to linux. Mostly, I > ran WordPerfect (the text-mode version) that had a preview screen. It > took me a while to get used to lout, make a ps, then launch gv to > preview it. Once I get my etch box all set up I'll try Lyx but > primarily as a way to learn latex. > If you are a Vim person, then look at vim-latexsuite. Once I broke down and read the Vim documentation and learned all the power behind it and then read the vim-latexsuite documentation it became a joy to write LaTeX. For example, I compile my document with \ll and then open it in xpdf with \lv (I use pdflatex almost exclusively). If you are an Emacs guy, then there is TeXemacs and a number of other available modes, but I am not familiar with them. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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