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- From: stern+@pitt.edu (Eric G Stern)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Looking for a word processing software
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:46:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan06.205503.2004@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan06.205503.2004@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> shorio@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Shigenori Horio) writes:
- >Hi, I am looking for the word processing software to write my masters thesis
- >on my Amiga 3000. Since my paper is going to have many math equations, I need
- >math symbol fonts such as integra, derivation, infinity, and root signs.
- >For example, I need to write like these:
-
-
- >2. Amiga Tex
- > I have never used Tex program. Writing more than 100 pages document in
- >Tex is going to be hell.
-
- >p.s. The documents are need to be printed by either ink jet or laser jet printer
- > I think I am going to buy HP 500.
- >Fory Horio at shorio@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
-
- Trying to write a 100+ page paper in anything _but_ TeX is going
- to be hell. Various macro packages for TeX (LaTeX, Phyzzx, TeXsis) allow
- you to easily section your thesis into chapters, sections, subsections, and
- allow you to easily make tables. Tables, equations (and figures) can be easily
- referenced by name in other parts of the paper. If you add more tables
- or equations or figures, or you move the ones you have, or you add a section
- before the table or whatever, you will not have to find and relabel
- sixty-jillion references if you're using one of these nice packages because
- all the references automatically track the position of the object that they
- refer to.
-
- In addition, TeX was _designed_ to make writing equations easier.
- Every serious mathematician or physicist who has to use complicated
- notation uses TeX. If you intend on going far in your field, and you
- need to do this kind of thing often, you will eventually need TeX anyway.
- To make the characters that you wanted is as easy as saying:
-
- \int \partial \infty \sqrt
-
- and the size of the signs changes to accommodate the formulae to which
- they apply.
-
- Printer drivers for postscript laser printers and HP language compatible
- devices are available from Radical Eye Software as well as a very nice
- TeX package including a previewer. Other TeX implementations are
- available by ftp, but I don't know what they have. AmigaTeX drivers
- also support the inclusion IFF and postscript figures in the text.
-
- Eric Stern
-