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Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac)
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Michael Martin |
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Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac) |
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:52:55 -0600 |
On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would
it
take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for
submission to
scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can
take
the place of MSWord and I won't need it at all?
I am a fellow Mac user, and I would say that Latex is certainly **a
possible solution**. Whether it is **the solution** for you will depend
upon you.
I have battled with the quirks of Office far to often in the past and
have long since given up on it. I use Latex for all my word processing
and presentations. This is true whether I am at work or at home. I do
not use Office at all to generate documents these days. I converted to
Latex about the time OSX first came out (2000?). I use Latex to go
straight to pdf and send the pdf's out instead of Office files, which
invariably seem to get mangled somehow. (Such as Office Mac can rotate
pdfs, but Office Windows could not (at least in the past this was the
case). I could list lots more).
As to figures, I generate them as .pdf files and include them in
presentations and papers as desired. For a given topic I create a
figures folder and dump all the figures there. Thus I can include
whatever I need and update any figure and all the related documents as
needed.
Now, on the downside Latex is not a wsywig type application. One uses
macros and a command language to describe the contents of the document.
There is certainly a learning curve involved. Packages/front ends like
TexShop make it easier, but there is still a learning curve. On the
upside, one can usually find good explanations via google of the
trickier things Latex can do.
One added benefit of Latex is, that since it is a text only input
typesetting language, one can use scripts (perl, shell, Applescript
etc) to harvest simulation results and automatically generate
tables/charts/etc with Latex commands that can be included into the
final report. Thus one is spared the manual task of setting these
things up. (ie import/copy/paste etc)
If you do go the Latex route, I recommend:
TexShop http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
And for the Latex itself, use Gerben Wierda's excellet i-Installer at:
http://www.rna.nl/tex.html
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- Re: Making graphic available for Latex, (continued)
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex, Quentin Spencer, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Henry F. Mollet, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Jonathan Stickel, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Quentin Spencer, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Michael Martin, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Vic Norton, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), John W. Eaton, 2005/02/04
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), A Hodel, 2005/02/03
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), John W. Eaton, 2005/02/04
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), Przemek Klosowski, 2005/02/04
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac),
Michael Martin <=
- Re: Making graphic available for Latex ( on Mac), John B. Thoo, 2005/02/04