edafe.org » macintosh http://edafe.org edafe.org is the personal site of Edafe Knabe. Sat, 12 May 2012 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 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 Continue reading →]]> “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 Switch to Ubuntu Linux not Apple Mac OS http://edafe.org/2008/10/switch-to-ubuntu-linux-not-apple-mac-os/ http://edafe.org/2008/10/switch-to-ubuntu-linux-not-apple-mac-os/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:20:16 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=3591 “Umpteen number of reports have been published telling people why they should consider switching to the Mac OS now that Vista has failed.” Prosenjit Bhattacharyya suggests Ubuntu as another alternative.
prosenjit23.wordpress.com

]]> http://edafe.org/2008/10/switch-to-ubuntu-linux-not-apple-mac-os/feed/ 0 GNU Bash reference manual http://edafe.org/2006/07/gnu-bash-reference-manual/ http://edafe.org/2006/07/gnu-bash-reference-manual/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:59:24 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=776 Continue reading →]]> “This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. It covers the current major release of Bash (2.x).” Written by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, the original developers of GNU Bash, the book is also available for online reading.
www.network-theory.co.uk

]]> http://edafe.org/2006/07/gnu-bash-reference-manual/feed/ 0 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard http://edafe.org/2006/05/filesystem-hierarchy-standard/ http://edafe.org/2006/05/filesystem-hierarchy-standard/#comments Tue, 16 May 2006 09:12:32 +0000 edafe http://edafe.org/?p=785 The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. Use this reference to maintain compliance of your Linux system with the FHS.
www.pathname.com

]]> http://edafe.org/2006/05/filesystem-hierarchy-standard/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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