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Re: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)
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Hi Jonathan (and everyone) -
Just got back from vacation (about 30 minutes ago).
I made the switch from Word ''97 and Acrobat to Latex and related
tools last year. It's fairly nice (for straight technical papers) once
you've got the basics, especially if you have a Latex guru handy.
Getting figures right can be tedious (but the same is true in Word, plus
complex Word layouts have a tendency to shift unexpectedly (i.e. when
changing your printer, or just Word feels grouchy....))
I run Latex on Win2000 under CygWin, but I think there's a straight Windows
port available as well.
I'll be glad to help (or commiserate) from a Word-to-basic-Latex-user
viewpoint - whatever seems appropriate!
Regards and Happy New Year to All --
Jim
At 11:35 AM 1/2/2003, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:09, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > >
> > > We'll be writing the document in latex.
> > >
> > Does this mean that all markup has to done by hand and that I need to
learn
> > the Latex system. I am used to preparing initial documents in MS-Word
and
> > then converting to Acrobat for distribution to cross-platform
environments.
>
> Yes, it means that all markup is done using latex commands in text
> files. And yes, it means learning some basics of latex. Believe me,
> latex is not that difficult for normal documents. I'll happily put
> together a two or three page primer that teaches you the basics, which
> is all that you'll need. Any layout problems, I'll take care of.
I presume that there are books available that cover Latex and Tex?
I guess I am just used to having the computer do the grunt work :-)
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