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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 04 September 2009 21:46 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
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>> ____/ Attila on Friday 04 September 2009 13:52 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> If you need a GUI front end to LaTeX, have a look at Kile and LyX. I've
>>>> used the latter since 2001.
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>>>
>>>> Roy S. Schestowitz | Watch your step, that soapbox is very slippery
>>>
>>> Cheers for that, Roy. Yeah, I know about the front-ends. My favourite is
>>> Texmaker which I find quite useful. Sadly, the problem is in the coding not
>>> in the user interface. I'm doing things that TeX simply wasn't designed to
>>> handle. The running dictionary style header is only a tiny part of the
>>> entire job and I'm rather pleased with myself, to be honest, that this is
>>> the only bit that seems intractable. It's a capability that an office suite
>>> should have and the openoffice devs have recognised it. They want me to
>>> submit it as a feature request. Ironically, that fact that you can't do
>>> this with MSOffice works against me since features lacking in OO that "the
>>> competition" already have, gives the feature request a higher priority.
>>> According to them, I am the first one to request this formally although I
>>> saw a posting in some forum where an Excel user was asking for the same
>>> thing. There were no answers to her query. I'm glad I'm dealing with
>>> Openoffice devs rather than M$. I'd be rotting in my grave before I got an
>>> acknowledgement but with FOSS I should see this feature appear before not
>>> too long. The community is fantastic!
>>> Ciao,
>>> Attila, The Freetard from Hell
>>
>> LyX is a lot more PowerFul than PowerPoint in some areas. With LyX I have
>> made some of my presentations, e.g.:
>>
>>
http://schestowitz.com/Research/Presentations/October_2004/MIAS_2004_3rd_rev.pdf
>
> Nice. What did you use for the graphs?
Just standard stuff in LyX. I can mail you the LyX file to be used as template
if you want. My thesis template still gets like 3-5 downloads/day.
>> In pure TeX I also made a poster:
>>
>>
http://schestowitz.com/Research/Posters/ISBI_2006_Poster/Revision_6/isbi_2006_poster.pdf
>
> That looks like something you would /not/ want to do in PowerPoint.
Some collagues tried and gave up.
>> It's nice when you can export as HTML because TeX understand structure:
>>
>> http://schestowitz.com/Research/Posters/ISBI_2006_Poster/Revision_6/HTML/
>
> What, you don't want to wrestle and wrangle with Microsoft Office!!!?
It would not be accessible years down the line.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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