edafe.org » latex http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:28:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What exactly is LaTeX for? http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/ http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:56:06 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=4431 “Many people discover LaTeX after years of struggling with wordprocessors and desktop publishing systems, and are amazed to find that TeX has been around for over 25 years and they hadn’t heard of it.”
Peter Flynn

LaTeX is a free document preparation system that enables you to create beautifully typeset pages. It implements a set of commands designed to control TeX, the typesetting engine developed by Donald E Knuth. LaTeX stores the information about your documents as plain text, thus avoiding the risk of vendor lock-in and ensuring that your documents will still be editable twenty years from now. LaTeX processes the plain text data and, with pdfTeX working in the background, generates PDF output of the highest typographic quality—perfect for viewing on-screen or printing on paper. LaTeX runs on many platforms and is included as standard with most Linux distributions. Ready-to-run LaTeX systems are also available for Windows and Mac OS X.
miktex.org, tug.org/mactex

]]> http://edafe.org/2009/01/what-exactly-is-latex-for/feed/ 0 Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list http://edafe.org/2005/09/comprehensive-latex-symbol-list/ http://edafe.org/2005/09/comprehensive-latex-symbol-list/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:51:31 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=885 Scott Pakin’s Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List indexes 2826
symbols that are currently available in LaTeX.
www.ctan.org (PDF file, 2.4 Mb)

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/09/comprehensive-latex-symbol-list/feed/ 0 Formatting information http://edafe.org/2005/09/formatting-information/ http://edafe.org/2005/09/formatting-information/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:29:01 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=881 Formatting Information is a beginner’s guide to typesetting with LaTeX. Expertly written by Peter Flynn, this document does not assume any prior knowledge.
www.tex.ac.uk

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/09/formatting-information/feed/ 0 The not so short introduction to LaTeX http://edafe.org/2005/08/the-not-so-short-introduction-to-latex/ http://edafe.org/2005/08/the-not-so-short-introduction-to-latex/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:09:12 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=878 Tobias Oetiker teaches you how to write texts so that they can be processed by LaTeX. The scope of this introduction is sufficient to cover most applications of LaTeX.
www.ctan.org (PDF file, 2.2 Mb)

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/08/the-not-so-short-introduction-to-latex/feed/ 0 LaTeX vs MS Word http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-vs-ms-word/ http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-vs-ms-word/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:21:14 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=871 Why even bother with LaTeX? Andrew Roberts explains why learning LaTeX might be worth the hassle after all.
www.andy-roberts.net

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-vs-ms-word/feed/ 0 LaTeX primer http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-primer/ http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-primer/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:48:11 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=883 Based on a set of tutorials, the Indian TeX Users Group aims this document straight at the novice user. The LaTeX Primer is not currently available on CTAN.
sarovar.org (PDF file, 928 kb)

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/08/latex-primer/feed/ 0 Word processors: stupid and inefficient http://edafe.org/2005/07/word-processors-stupid-and-inefficient/ http://edafe.org/2005/07/word-processors-stupid-and-inefficient/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:55:45 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=873 “The word processor is a stupid and inefficient tool for preparing text for communication with others.” Allin Cottrell outlines the comparative benefits of using LaTeX.
www.ecn.wfu.edu

]]> http://edafe.org/2005/07/word-processors-stupid-and-inefficient/feed/ 0 LaTeX: it’s not just for academia http://edafe.org/2005/07/latex-its-not-just-for-academia/ http://edafe.org/2005/07/latex-its-not-just-for-academia/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2005 08:24:14 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=876 “Most of us have used word processors for so long we have ignored other writing tools that offer real benefits.” Let Kevin O’Malley take you on a tour of LaTeX for Mac OS X.
www.macdevcenter.com Part 1, Part 2

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