Mathematics Typesetting (1 Viewer)

[vafa]

I found something interesting and it is how 20 years ago people used to create output with LaTeX.

You do not even need an editor. You just can simply use notepad to write your LaTeX code. and then save it as name.tex, then open dos and type latex name and it will produce the dvi output and if you want pdf, you can simply type dvipdfm name or directly pdflatex name

This is so good, so I do not have to rely on any editor and I am going to use this method forever. It is so cool.

 

[vafa]

Textures 2.0 used to be good under MacOS 9, but the new beta version 2.2.0b for MacOS X isn't as good:
http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html

Hopefully they will improve it because Textures used to be really good. It's just been difficult to update.

So on the Mac I now use MacTeX instead.

Whydo not you try TeXLive?

 

[vafa]

I prefer to do it on my computer. But I tried it as soon as you put the link in your post.It is great and thanks for it.

But I like doing it on the system that I have installed on my computer.

I also have a blog in wordpress which allows LaTeX coding. Its syntax is like $latex \displaystyle\int f\left(x\right)\,dx$ and it gives you the same output but on the web.

I am currently learning LaTeX2html, which allowes websites to display mathematical expressions.


I really do not know how could anyone type with word.

In word, you have to worry about design and content and sometimes it is quite annoying but fortunately in LaTeX, you only worry about content and LaTeX does the other.

And by the way, the way word displays mathematical equations is not as beautiful as what LaTeX does. And in addition to that if you make a messy fraction with word, it makes it so small that is not even readable but LaTeX makes it clear and readable.

I think those people who are using word, get used to it and are too lazy to spend a day to learn LaTeX.

I still believe word will disappear in a few years time.

But we have got a good deal for people who are lazy to learn LaTeX. They still can use lyx or anything similar to it which is like word but by the difference that they obtain n times more beautiful output.

 

[vafa]

MiKTeX 2.7 released now and you can get it at www.miktex.org

 

[darkliight]

I just downloaded the latest beta (4 or something?) of that last week, which I hadn't even got around to installing yet ... doh.

Thanks for the update though.

 

[davidbarnes]

Thanks.

 

[vafa]

I found something interesting and it is how 20 years ago people used to create output with LaTeX.

You do not even need an editor. You just can simply use notepad to write your LaTeX code. and then save it as name.tex, then open dos and type latex name and it will produce the dvi output and if you want pdf, you can simply type dvipdfm name or directly pdflatex name

This is so good, so I do not have to rely on any editor and I am going to use this method forever. It is so cool.

I found a very good text editor (script editor) which is called Scite and you can obitain it from http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/SciTE/en/install/

It is excellent and you can write the code of so many other languages like Scheme, python, ruby and ... with it.