![]() I was talking exclusively about TeX/LaTeX.Įven the "Scientific Word" is latex based, it has nothing to do ![]() I was not talking about Word or any other word processor. I could have written exactly what you have written. Yes, I completelyĪgree with you! Except of your language in the last sentence Neither I want to monopolize this thread, but the last entryīy Vivaldi Gloria calls for a little comment. ![]() The ones written with LaTeX look great and the others look like sh*t. I can always tell which hw is written using LaTeX and which is not. The primary strength of LaTeX is its typesetting quality. Writing a 100 page scientific document with word? - Better kill me so the pain & suffering ends.Īnd I stress the fact that humans (and Word) are not good at designing complex documents. I go mad even if I try to write a two page document with word. How many times did you strugle with word when it puts an item in an odd place, or it starts numbering things which are not supposed to be numbered, and so on. The LaTeX guy will write it in a fraction of the time it takes the word guy to write it. Get a complex document with a lot of formulas and have it typed by two people - a Word wizard and a LaTeX wizard. LaTeX takes care of all visual design of the document so you just type the content, and believe me, typing is much faster than typing plus visual design. The whole document gets typeset automatically to the new style!!Īnd that is the main point of LaTeX - you don't bother with the page format and appearance of the document which makes you loose time, makes the document rigid, and afterall humans are not very good at it. I don't have to change anything in the document. What am I to do? Simple, I download their style file and use it. But B uses a completely different syle & layout. Now A rejected the paper and I want to send it to the journal B. Suppose I wrote a paper in LaTeX and sent it to the journal A using their style file. There he compares the two approaches and gives an example (about the inner product) which shows it's much efficient to use LaTeX. You should read sections 1.4-1.5 in Lamport's book - LaTeX, A Document Preparation system. Visual design may be OK for a short paper. Pal, you need to read more about logical vs. You are right, the simple math can easily be entered straight into the text, but try entering a continuous fraction with terms containing fractions and braces etc.Īre you kiddin me? Of course it is easier with LaTeX. Knuth started TEX, there even was not much GUI around.Īnd practice has shown that LaTeX is still better than all gui editors. I don't want to hijack this thread but with apologies to OP I have to answer lad.kocb. TexAide is a stripped down version of MathType, only the TEX representation "paid for" MathType is TexAide which Design Science gives away for free. One more note for those who still need to use MSwindows: an alternative to ![]() On texmacs I wrote another comment in this thread. (expensive, but very good MSwindows scientific workplaces still available Scientific Word written for windows 3.1, for more complex structures. (fortunately less and less often) I still use an ancient version of I still prefer using texmacs (LYX is a bit too "independent"), on MSwindows I have been using tex and latex for nearly 20 years, and for longer math In such situations the graphical interface is very helpful. You are right, the simple math can easily be entered straight into the text,īut try entering a continuous fraction with terms containing fractions andīraces etc. Of the DeVice Independent binary representations. TEX then produces DVI filesĪnd there is a whole set of different additional programs to take advantage Plain text files, editable in any text editor. Of mathematics represented by rather simple commands and macros in Knuth started TEX, thereĮven was not much GUI around. The whole point of latex is definitely not The short answer is "You are missing a lot". Point of latex is to get rid of making formulas by hand and you makeįormulas by hand in order to use them in latex? This must be the the worst and slowest way of writing latex. Them to latex code and you copy that latex code and paste it in You want with mouse to form a formula and then mathtype converts
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