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TheCow
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LaTeX Linux
#8319359 - 04/23/08 03:39 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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I have a paper due Friday which uses a lot of math. Now Ive been lucky in that all the formulas Ive needed Ive found in research papers, so Ive just copied/pasted them. However I want to change what Ive done and make the derivation more rigorous. Unfortunately only certain textbooks do this from what I can tell, most research papers summarize full derivations. So I need to write down math in Open Office which as far as I can tell, has a horrid equation editor.
So, is there a good program I can download for Linux that will let me write in LaTeX? I dont know how to write in it yet, though I imagine it cant be terribly difficult.
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8319611 - 04/23/08 04:40 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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Kile and TeXmaker would be my personal, open source recommendations. They are very similar, only Kile uses the KDE environment. As for me I slightly prefer TeXmaker since it is a bit more snappy (no KDE overhead) and runs natively on linux, OSX and windows. I use it all the time to turn in exercises which involve lengthy derivations. After a while it becomes a second nature and just as fast as pen and paper.
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Seuss
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8319705 - 04/23/08 05:02 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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> I dont know how to write in it yet, though I imagine it cant be terribly difficult.

Oh, that is good! LaTeX is a typesetting language. The basics are actually pretty easy, but it can become very complex if you want to dive into the depths. The equation formatting is pretty easy to pickup; mainly a matter of remembering the correct name for the various symbols. If you are writing research papers, LaTeX is well worth learning. Especially if you are going to publish.
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TheCow
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: Seuss]
#8319776 - 04/23/08 05:14 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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yea yea, I realize of course it can be difficult, I just need to write down various equations that aren't too difficult really, just some partial differential equations.
So I got texmaker, but it keeps giving me an error "no log file found"
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TheCow
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8319892 - 04/23/08 05:33 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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never mind I got it
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8319902 - 04/23/08 05:36 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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I use TeXnic Center for windows so Im no help to you. I dont even know why I posted.... Good luck
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TheCow
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yea I might need it. Ive gotten away with never using LaTeX by just finding papers that have what Im looking for, and rippin that shit out. But for the depth I need for this paper, I can only find the shit in these obscure textbooks I found at the librarium.
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8321228 - 04/23/08 10:11 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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LaTeX is going quite well, for what Im doing it is extremely intuitive. Im actually quite enjoying this process , you physics people, go join my mirror thread
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Re: LaTeX Linux [Re: TheCow]
#8321342 - 04/23/08 10:30 PM (16 years, 29 days ago) |
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Dude, I dont know wtf you got going on there...
I like LaTeX, its fun. I LaTeX most my reports, my fellow undergrads use word which is weak sauce
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TheCow
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What dont you get man? All Im saying is that we slowly move through the process of how a mirror works. Someone starts out by saying light moves towards a mirror. Another person says that the light touches the glass, then someone goes deeper into the effects of the light touching the glass, and we continue until weve exhausted all our physical knowledge about what happens when light interacts with the glass. After that we come to the metal and we delve into that topic, then we follow how the light actually gets reflected or absorbed on as deep a level as possible.
The idea is simply to iteratively move through the process of light hitting a mirror, going as deep as possible before moving onto the next step in the process.
Then if we finish a mirror we can move onto some other topic. The idea is to have extremely rigorous explanations of something that strikes someones fancy. I think it could make for an interesting tradition in this forum
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