LaTex templates drive the costs down for publishers and allow some open and free technical journals to survive.
Once you get used to them it speeds up write up - besides creating tables.
Best wishes
Evan
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Subject: Re: LaTex is so last century
if you try to write a book or a scientific paper, more often than not the publishers give you a Latex template.
it is not so bad after all for a last century tool...
Of course if you work with doctors, never use Latex.
Stephane
> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:36:51 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: LaTex is so last century
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> 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-----
> > From: Dorothy Middleton<[log in to unmask]>
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> > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:55:23
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> > Subject: LaTex is so last century
> >
> >
> > 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]
> >
> > 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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