Personally - I am a supporter of Vim + a makefile. When I used to write a
lot of LaTeX - I had fancy bindings in Vim to run a makefile on whatever
file I was editing.
My makefile and style sheets are what really make life easy. Typically the
makefile does all the rendering and cleanup of the cruft files that get
created along the way, then launches Adobe Acrobat Reader to check out the
resulting PDF.
These days I am on a Mac - and I still find myself going to the terminal,
running Vim, and rendering with a Makefile. But - I should point out that
when I was a newbie in the ways of LaTeX - I was addicted to WinEDT. Nice
editor (I still use it when I forget a tag) and has splell chexing. ;-) The
greek/AMS symbols on buttons are a great intro for math markup.
-Chris
On 12/30/06, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, sorry to bother folks so much about math notation and all, but ..
It looks like TeX and LaTeX are the de-facto standards for math type
setting and also for equation formatting .. well ahead of MathML.
Its also apparently a great word processing system in general.
So the question to all you LaTeX folks, could you let us know which
of the many implementations you use, and how you use it?
On the Mac, there're several options. The Mac TeX site
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
.. has several distributions, and multiple front ends. TeXShop and
iTeXMac are the most popular unified edit/view systems. But many
folks simply use good text editors, with easy viewer integration of
some sort (DVI/PDF).
From what I can tell, the two approaches are integrated edit/view
systems, vs your basic text editor using a standalone viewer. What
to FRIAMer TeX'ers like??
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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