Re: Free Octave-Matlab book in Spanish

[kamaraju kusumanchi]

Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 1/27/06, Javier Arantegui Jimenez <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I don't know a word of LaTeX, but I use TeXmacs
> >    
>
> TeXmacs is good. By the sound of it, it's just a front-end to (La)TeX,
> but I'm not sure if that's true or not.
>
> And you should learn a word of LaTeX. It's good for you. :)
>
> - Jordi
>  

[flame suite on]

Actually, Texmacs is much more than that. It is very useful for example, 
if you want to draw and include some pictures inside your latex 
document. There are many more interesting things but the above feature 
is what made me stick with Texmacs instead of latex.

Currently if you want to draw a picture with some complicated labels 
(greek letters, subscripts etc.,) the usual way is to draw this picture 
in xfig or some other program (like dia) and adjust/readjust the 
formatting of labels through multiple cycles of "save picture, export to 
eps, latex save, latex compile, view the final output". Texmacs 
eliminates all this "unnecessary" intermediate phases and you have a 
very clean environment to draw and include the pictures.

I also find that, I can write documents at 2-3 times faster than what I 
was able to do with latex (vim-latexsuite to be precise). If you are new 
to the world of typesetting, I suggest going for Texmacs without 
bothering about latex. But be warned that not all the journals out there 
accept .tm files, so you might have to learn latex depending on your 
need. But if you have a choice, Choose texmacs over latex.

[flame suite off]

raju

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