Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:58:29 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: latex on fbsd Message-ID: <d4c53e2a-2063-c39b-9946-0e2305a927d4@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <7c7b8992-053a-b22f-da45-b6cfaf3b753b@dreamchaser.org> <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 4/16/19 5:27 AM, Polytropon wrote: > Depending on the kind and scope of your work, using "plain > LaTeX" with your editor of choice, and then simply running > the command "pdflatex filename.tex", could be the easiest > thing - less overhead, less distraction, less stuff to manually > adjust in the GUI. (I'm saying this as a person who does > 99 % of all paperwork in "plain LaTeX", with the special > case where LaTeX is generated automatically from special > tools.) Thanks, pdflatex is what I needed to know. > On the other hand, starting LaTeX with a WYSIWYG environment > is nothing bad, as long as you don't look into the horror markup > it often tends to generate... ;-) Thanks for the heads-up; will check that. For what I'm doing I should only be adding / modifying text, so no additional markup. If the tool doesn't transform existing stuff it might work. Thanks, Gary
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