Anybody use LaTeX?
Posted: 2003-09-08 10:26am
Just curious, does anyone here use LaTeX for their documents, and if so, for what? Scientific ones, English papers, etc?
I use it for all my lab reports.
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Posted: 2003-09-08 12:19pm
Yup.
I use it for all my lab reports.
I use it for all my lab reports.
Posted: 2003-09-08 06:17pm
Gah. My home computer appears to be denying that I have Remote Desktop installed ... and I put MikTex on it since I can harness its power on my Athlon box. I should get around to putting OpenSSH on it so at least I can transfer files ...
Meanwhile, LyX, LaTeX and all of its requirements are compiling...
/contemplates switching to Debian to end the compiling madness.
Meanwhile, LyX, LaTeX and all of its requirements are compiling...
/contemplates switching to Debian to end the compiling madness.
Posted: 2003-09-08 10:44pm
Muahahahahah... using Debian*.
I don't know... Is learning Docbook a viable alternative to LaTeX for writing papers? The idea is that you can easily convert to (La)TeX, HTML, etc. Not using any of them though, since I'm not doing anything serious yet. Oh, and there's kile, a source editor for LaTeX.
*If you are getting debian, use unstable, and hope to download at a stable time, or get stable (hopelessly outdated), then use the KDE 3.1 backports. From what I've heard though, Gentoo stable is worse than Debian stable. Unstable has the largest software selection though. Use a miniCD instead of the full CD and download the rest using dselect, since that will probably be outdated. Suggest replacing dselect with aptitude ASAP though. rc*.d and init.d aren't in /etc/rc.d, instead, they are just in /etc. You have an option to use either Ext3 or reiserfs- reiser has disadvantages and inperceptibly slower, but may be better in long term when reiser4 becomes stable with newer features and acls?.
Hate the fact that everything is compiled for i386 with no optimizations, but *shrugs*. You can always recompile only the performance demanding stuff and libc, though I've heard recompiling X doesn't provide much increase anyway. SDL programs had problems, but these were fixed after recompiling SDL. Probably fixed by now.
Vegastrike won't run and can't compile
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BiblioEntrys are “raw.” They contain a database-like collection of named fields. It is the responsibility of the processing system to select elements from within a BiblioEntry, present them in the correct order, and add all punctuation.
There is no expectation that a system will present all of the fields in a BiblioEntry or that they will be displayed in the order in which they occur.
Correct formatting of BiblioEntrys is an interchange issue. See Appendix F.
openGL apps, or at least Vegastrike. Shouldn't make too much of a difference though. From tests with kernel 2.6, it seems that switching to that will provide snappier GUI performance, but this is useless without a winmodem driver.
I don't know... Is learning Docbook a viable alternative to LaTeX for writing papers? The idea is that you can easily convert to (La)TeX, HTML, etc. Not using any of them though, since I'm not doing anything serious yet. Oh, and there's kile, a source editor for LaTeX.
*If you are getting debian, use unstable, and hope to download at a stable time, or get stable (hopelessly outdated), then use the KDE 3.1 backports. From what I've heard though, Gentoo stable is worse than Debian stable. Unstable has the largest software selection though. Use a miniCD instead of the full CD and download the rest using dselect, since that will probably be outdated. Suggest replacing dselect with aptitude ASAP though. rc*.d and init.d aren't in /etc/rc.d, instead, they are just in /etc. You have an option to use either Ext3 or reiserfs- reiser has disadvantages and inperceptibly slower, but may be better in long term when reiser4 becomes stable with newer features and acls?.
Hate the fact that everything is compiled for i386 with no optimizations, but *shrugs*. You can always recompile only the performance demanding stuff and libc, though I've heard recompiling X doesn't provide much increase anyway. SDL programs had problems, but these were fixed after recompiling SDL. Probably fixed by now.
Vegastrike won't run and can't compile
Formatted as a displayed block.
BiblioEntrys are “raw.” They contain a database-like collection of named fields. It is the responsibility of the processing system to select elements from within a BiblioEntry, present them in the correct order, and add all punctuation.
There is no expectation that a system will present all of the fields in a BiblioEntry or that they will be displayed in the order in which they occur.
Correct formatting of BiblioEntrys is an interchange issue. See Appendix F.
openGL apps, or at least Vegastrike. Shouldn't make too much of a difference though. From tests with kernel 2.6, it seems that switching to that will provide snappier GUI performance, but this is useless without a winmodem driver.