From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Apr 16 15:00:34 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E56C1574C4C for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FE688F951 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x3GF0Qqq040832; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:00:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Subject: Re: latex on fbsd To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <7c7b8992-053a-b22f-da45-b6cfaf3b753b@dreamchaser.org> <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:58:29 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:00:26 -0600 (MDT) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8FE688F951 X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@dreamchaser.org designates 66.109.141.57 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@dreamchaser.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.36 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dreamchaser.org]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: nightmare.dreamchaser.org]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.75)[-0.748,0]; IP_SCORE(-3.30)[ip: (-8.65), ipnet: 66.109.128.0/19(-4.33), asn: 21947(-3.46), country: US(-0.06)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21947, ipnet:66.109.128.0/19, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:00:34 -0000 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