User: Dekel

Re:LaTeX? Raw, please

On: Scribus Cracks the Big Leagues in Print

Take a look at fig2sty.

Benchmarks

On: Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy

Which is faster? G4, Athlon or P4 ? Get some answers here

(for the lazy, the G4 is slower than the Athlon in all the tests, except the RC5 benchmark)

Re:Ten Reasons Why TeX/LaTeX is Better than Word

On: Writing Documentation

I just checked and it DOES work.
Anyway, there are lots of other ways to define a shortcut.
E.g.

\let\beq=\equation
\let\eeq=\endequation

or

\newcommand{\eqn}[1]{\begin{equation}#1\end{equa ti on}}

You can also program your editor to to create a short key sequence that inserts \begin{equation}..\end{equation}

Re:No question - use LaTeX - DVIPDFM

On: Writing Documentation

ps2pdf always produces jaggy pdf (in my experience) when read using windows

This can easily be changed. See the TeX FAQ

Re:Ten Reasons Why TeX/LaTeX is Better than Word

On: Writing Documentation

\def\begeq{\begin{equation}}
\def\endeq{\end{equation}}

\beq
\frac{foo}{bar}
\eeq

Perhaps the problem is that you defined \begeq and \endeq macros, but then you used \beq and \eeq ?

Re:No question - use LaTeX

On: Writing Documentation

I recently started using ps2pdf to generate PDF output (after running latex, then dvips) to put on the course web page. But the output looks really horrible on-screen, although it prints out OK.

See the TeX FAQ for a solution for this.

However, I often include EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files in my LaTeX documents, and pdflatex can't deal with them.

Pdflatex supports inclusion of PDF files. You can convert an EPS to PDF using epstopdf, or you can set up pdflatex so it will make the conversion automatically. Read the docs.

The docs for dvipdfm also seem to indicate that it can't deal with embedded EPS files. So I guess I'm still stuck with ps2pdf...

dvipdfm CAN handle EPS files.

Re:No question - use LaTeX - DVIPDFM

On: Writing Documentation

Excellent! I'd love to be able to generate PDF and PS from the exact same DVI source file; this looks like just the thing.

Unless you use pstricks or similar packages.

What is wrong with ps2pdf ? It produces PDF files as good as the ones produced by pdflatex/dvipdfm (assuming you set up dvips to use type1 fonts).

Re:LaTeX vs WYSIWYG

On: Writing Documentation

LaTeX does have some disadvantages, however:

1.No unicode support.

Omega is an extension of TeX that supports unicode.
Even standard TeX can have unicode support: See the CJK and unicode packages (for LaTeX).

Re:LyX

On: Writing Documentation

You may want to have a look at LyX with KDE user interface (KLyX) then (no binaries there; try this klyx page on rpmfind.net).

The LyX people write that it is currently unmaintained, but the last version I tried worked quite stable.

While KLyX is stable, it doesn't contain the new features that were added to lyx in the recent years, so I recommend not to use it.
Hopefully, a qt2 version of LyX will be released this year.

Re:TeX gone? Nope.

On: Writing Documentation

> METAFONT is pretty much integrated into TeX if you're using...

TeX doesn't know anything about fonts. It only uses font metric files (.tfm). The job of handling fonts is left for the dvi-to-x program.
Dvips can handle any postscript font, and TrueType fonts can easily be converted to postscript (type 42).
Dvipdfm can handle both postscript and TrueType fonts (pdftex also handle both type of fonts).