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On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 16:41 +0100, Philip Hudson wrote: > Sorry I missed the meeting today. Hope you had a good one. > > Anyone know anything about TeX/LaTeX? How easy is it to learn, how > useful is it, who uses it, etc. > > -- > Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz > @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 > > I use LaTeX quite a lot - originally for writing technical papers and reports, but now for financial reports. A good introduction to its capabilities is "The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e" which is at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ amongst other places. Using a dedicated editor also helps (TeXmaker on Gnome, Kile on Kde). There is also LyX which is a "What You See is What You Mean" editor - almost wysiwyg. I have also used it command line with Vi and there is an emacs mode. TeXlive (despite the name LaTeX not straight TeX) is available in most Linux repositories, afaik. Phil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq