I've never used Tex, and I doubt if I ever will. Latex is
definitely more human friendly, and with Sweave (which puts
R into LAtex) it's much more useful,
Anthony
PS - LaTex is a set of macros which hides the innards of TeX
from the innocent user.
On 07/02/12 19:12, James bradley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Have you ever used Tex to produce a document ?
>
> James Bradley
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: LaTex is so last century
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>
> MathType plus Word does all I need to do.
>
> Phillip Good
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Essex Short Course in LaTex
> From: "Allum, Nick"<[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, February 07, 2012 10:51 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting)
>
>
> Many of our PGR students here at Essex are requesting training in LaTex,
> and we are able to offer discounts to Ph.D. students in the social
> sciences who wish to take the two-day course that we've designed as part
> of our offering to the DTC Advanced Training Network.
>
> The course will be offered on the 16th and 17th of April, and will cost
> £60 for social science Ph.D. students.
>
> Staff in higher education can take the course for £240. Information on
> the course and sign-up processes can be found here:
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/news_and_seminars/seminarDetail.aspx?e_id=3888.
>
> =====================================
> Course Outline:
> LaTeX is a system for high-quality typesetting that is particularly
> useful for technical and scientific documents. This course prepares
> students to use all the power of LaTex to typeset any type of
> manuscript. The course begins with the typesetting of articles and
> books. This includes the general set up of a document, fonts,
> paragraphs, lists, footnotes and, of course, BibTex. Having done this,
> the students are introduced to the use of mathematical formulas,
> symbols, equations, matrices, and tables. The course also covers the
> interface between LaTex and statistical software to produce tables of
> estimation results. The students will also learn to use figures in
> LaTex. Finally, the course covers Beamer, the flexible and powerful
> LaTex class to create amazing slides for presentations.
> ====================================
>
> Nick
>
>
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