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Re: [Q] Caldera WABI - works with RH4.0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alair Pereira do Lago)
Sat Nov 30 12:29:15 1996
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From: Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br>
Date: 30 Nov 1996 15:24:07 -0200
In-Reply-To: Mike Wangsmo's message of Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:34:33 -0700 (MST)
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Mike Wangsmo <wanger@fubar.cs.montana.edu> writes:
> If documenting (writing a paper) results is the _only_ reason for wanting
> to purchase wabi, then my humble suggestion is learn LaTeX as it does a 100
> times better job at dealing with equations and technical writing. If you
> had a reason to need the document written in MS word format then that
> would be a different story.
>
> I know using LaTeX can seem daunting at first however.... Writting in
> LaTeX is a lot like programming. It is also incrediblly powerful
> compared to a wordprocessor. It took me about two months to become
> familiar with LaTeX and now I can't even use a wordprocessor. It just
> takes a little determination to get it squared away (and a GOOD BOOK).
Try LyX if you are lazy to learn LaTeX. LyX is an almost WYSIWYG front-end to
LaTeX. It generates LaTeX output and this is the way it prints a document.
It also allows you to insert LaTeX commands if you need special features.
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Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>
Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil
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