Re: tlug: Transitioning to Linux (was: Many Faces on Linux)

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Eric S. Standlee writes:
 > I understand LaTeX's theory that their method should make writing text
 > better, but my problem is that TeXes only add thousands of key strokes to
 > a long product.  GUI wp's take the needless keystrokes and make same
 > processes available...  If there is a better way to use Tex/LaTeX, please
 > tell me so that I can consider that also.
Unless your are writing a lot of mathematical formulas the number of
added keystrokes is not so large. And even then you have a way of
reading the formulas pretty easily in ascii format. For example:
$e^{-x^2}$ is pretty easy to read/write and you get a nice formula
in your Text without much difficulty. Additionally, you don`t have to
worry about line or page breaks and there is even some kind of wysiwyg 
support for latex called lyx. I haven`t tried that one because I don`t 
really need it. 
 > 
 > Does TeX/LaTeX support Japanese?  Are there conversions into other doc
 > formats?
 > 
There is japanese support and some coversion possibilities. I know of
latex2html for example. I don`t know if there is a conversion to word
or other such programs. Of course the standard is to translate the
.dvi file which is produced by TeX/LaTeX into postscript using dvips.
For a lot of examples of LaTeX you may want to look at a preprint
server like http://xxx.lanl.gov/. All those documents are written in
TeX/LaTeX and you can also look at the Postscript results.

Marcus

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