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Subject:    OT programs was Re: kword documents - cross platform woes.
From:       Mark Arrasmith <arrasmith () math ! wichita ! edu>
Date:       2003-11-05 20:42:59
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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 01:51 pm, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>
> I just emerged both lyx and kile, i want to tinker with both of them.
> Tell me, what is the diff between them, i didn't get yoru comment about
> pure latex.
>

http://www.lyx.org/
LyX is a "pretty" document processor that uses LaTeX.  You type what you mean 
and it then prints correctly.  You don't have to use $x^2+y^2=\alpha$ you 
just see the pretty print form of mathematics and equations.  You have 
drop-down menus for symbols and it uses all the nice features of T.O.C. and 
bibliographies that comes with LaTeX.  Though it is helpful to know some 
LaTeX and at least what LaTeX *is*.

http://kile.sourceforge.net/
Kile is a LaTeX editor.  You type in LaTeX, but it gives you syntax 
highlighting and very quick access to symbols and such.  Best LaTeX editor 
I've ever used.  My comment on "pure latex" was that you have to type in "pur 
latex" :)

http://www.texmacs.org/
TeXmacs on the other hand is basically an awesome frontend to lots of 
scientific programs (like Maxima, Octave, gnuplot, maple, R, etc) with good 
document editing features.  Kind of an abscure GUI, but functional.  Probably 
the most like a word processor of the three.  But the menus and key-bindings 
make is "alien-ish" to average users.

I *highly* recommend TeXmacs if you have to type up math homework.  If any 
coders are interested, there are some rumblings about switching the gui 
toolkit.  There was one previous attempt to move to QT (that didn't work out) 
and I'd really like to see that happen. :)

- mark

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