Thread: TeX/LaTeX

Hi all,

Was just woundering who amoung you use TeX or LaTeX for typesetting your documents. I've been doing so for about 2 years now and it was the best thing I ever did. I just can't can't stand Word: it crashes, WRONGLY second guesses me, and CAN BE quite difficult to convert to PDF files. I've not found any of these problems with LaTeX and wish I switched earlier.

Any thoughts on it out there?

Regards,

Steven

Love TeX and LaTeX myself as well.

Steven,

Yes, I always use TeX whenever possible. I've been using it since the early '90s. pdfLaTeX is quite useful too. I use TeXLive on windows (others use MikTeX) and the generic TeX on Linux. Under both operating systems I use Emacs as the editor, with refTeX and auctex enabled. I also enable TeX-master - a bit gimicky but it does make life easier for multi-file documents like theses or books etc.

Another nice little programme is LaTable - make your tables or tabular environments and enter data using its wysiwyg interface, then copy the generated TeX code into your document - really handy if you need to display more complex tables of data or whatever. You can even, if you're clever, get it to line up columns on decimal points or commas etc.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Steven,

Under both operating systems I use Emacs as the editor,

James.

Actually I also use Emacs for it, with AucTex mode. Makes life a lot easier (especially since I also use metaPost for most of my figure, so I can preview them in Emacs easily.

Steven

I haven't looked into it fully yet, but my linux distro has something called TeXMacs installed. It looks like a WYSIWYG TeX editor based on Emacs (maybe). Have you ever tried that?

James.

I used to use it in grad school and really liked it. It produces beautifully laid-out documents.