]On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 19:32 -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: > > > On 6/11/07, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write > Math > papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from > Windows to > Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software > she > should use for writing her Math papers, and being an old ascii > text guy, > I did not know what to tell her. > > Looking through the available packages I saw > TeXmacs > openoffice.org-math > among others. > > Then I realized someone on this list would have useful > advice. > > Thanks. > > -- > Lloyd Kvam > Venix Corp > > > What grade will she be in? She'll be in a Masters program at Union College.
> Straight LaTeX might not be too hard to learn. There is an IDE for it > for Linux which might make learning the commands a bit easier. The > PDF output rendering has improved dramatically in the last handful of > years. But there's also LyX which is basically a WSYWIG front end to > LaTeX. > > I've never liked the results I get in the word processor software > packages, but I've never used OpenOffice. If she's inclined to like > markup languages, LaTeX is the way to go. > > -Mike- > > -- > "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the > system, but too early to shoot the bastards." > --- Claire Wolfe -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/