Thanks very much for your suggestions. On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:07 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: > If she is doing a mathematically intensive paper, hands down, use > LaTeX. (Or LyX) The other word processors don't even come close.
Well the consensus seems to be that LaTeX is the way to go. Her undergrad papers were done with Mathematica in Windows, using a copy licensed to the school. The first paper will be on knot theory. She's been taking clases part-time while working. Now she'll be a full-time student starting next week. I've been providing long-range tech support since she switched to Linux. Hopefully the latex processing flow is easy to package up into a shell script or Makefile. I've installed everything with latex or lyx in the package name. So she'll need to master latex commands and I'll assist with the processing flow as necessary. I see that Maple and Mathematica are available for Linux, so either of those could be an option. > One > can find document styles that match professional publications if that is > desired. There is a learning curve, of course, but the quality of the > typesetting is unparalleled. For the content, you are on your own. :) I expect she'll manage the content OK. She does try to avoid futzing with her computer - that gets handed off to Dad. > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
