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- From: s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
- Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
- In-Reply-To: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu's message of 23 Nov 1992 02:42:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <S37732V.92Nov23172812@lk-hp-14.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> <1epgffINN5rp@uwm.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:28:12 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- In article <1epgffINN5rp@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:
-
- In article <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> vpopesc@opus.uucp (Valentin Popescu) writes:
- >Is there an amiga wordprocessor (WYSIWYG, NOT TeX), that supports
- >equation layout? (such as FrameMaker, etc)? I looked at FinalCopy in a
- >store, and although they claimed math support, it turned out to be a
- >very expensivce calculator. :) (unless I didn't know how to use it).
- >
- >So, in other words, I would like to write documents that include
- >differential equations, so I would need support for the
- >integral/sumation signs. Any help out there? Anyone promising this in
- >any upcoming apps?
-
- This isn't going to help you at all. Hit "n" now. ;)
-
- I'm an EE student. The only suitable application I know of to write
- diffeq's in (pronounced "diffie cues" around here, kind of like Susie
- Q's) ;) is TeX.
-
- Yes. TeX is definitely the BEST.
-
- Now, I know that's not a huge help, because you want to be able to
- look at what you're doing, right?
-
- That's why I bought AmigaTeX. It's got what I consider to be the
- second-best version of TeX available, the first going to the
- NeXT--they were both written by the same folk. Anyways, in AmigaTeX,
- there's a really first-rate preview option. So I say learn TeX. For
- a long time, I wanted a word processor that would have everything I
- wanted. I gave up, and learned TeX. It wasn't easy. However, I'll
- never go back. I'll never regret it. Though the road is long, once
- the road of TeX is taken, the other roads seem to be dirt and gravel
- paths.
-
- Greg
-
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- I have found a solution which in my opinion is quite easy to learn and
- very flexible too.
-
- I've started to use Texinfo to do my wordprocessing. Mostly documentations
- for my programs. Texinfo is very easy to learn (takes very little time)
- and it also allows insertion of TeX 'command sequences'.
-
- So you can make all the normal text you need by writing your documents
- with normal editor, inserting Texinfo commands to start new chapters,
- sections, appendixes, automatic indexes etc... and use normal tex
- commands to insert mathematical equations.
-
- Texinfo is made by GNU peoples and it uses a normal TeX to make the
- documents.
-
-
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