Posted by Kaiser on Monday, August 20, 2007
I have just discovered thanks to the French LaTeX community on Google Groups, that an extension TeX-the-World for typesetting LaTeX formulae within the web, or chat windows.
Just go to the WE website here, and install the .xpi extension. You will have to restart your browser. You will have something that looks like the image below (Google Mail chat window) :
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Posted by Kaiser on Monday, April 2, 2007
I discovered thanks to Bidules that it is possible to write some 
with wordpress. It gonna be useful, even if this feature is a small overview of what can do for typography. 
![\displaystyle{R_0 = -\log_2\left[ 1 + \sum_{\substack{l=1\\l\neq h}}^N q_{lh}^2\right]}](http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cdisplaystyle%7BR_0+%3D+-%5Clog_2%5Cleft%5B+1+%2B+%5Csum_%7B%5Csubstack%7Bl%3D1%5C%5Cl%5Cneq+h%7D%7D%5EN+q_%7Blh%7D%5E2%5Cright%5D%7D&bg=fafcff&fg=2a2a2a&s=0 "\displaystyle{R_0 = -\log_2\left[ 1 + \sum_{\substack{l=1\\l\neq h}}^N q_{lh}^2\right]}")
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Posted by Kaiser on Thursday, March 2, 2006
LaTeX is the best typographical software ever known. But for those who want to write in LaTeX without having to learn the basics, they can use TeXmacs. It’s available on the Net, priceless … (thanks TuX and GPL).
This software allows you to create articles, letters, books, seminars (slides) and more … just as you were on M$-Word. It’s based on the Emacs (GNU/Linux) environnement combined with the TeX macros.
You can find TeXmacs here.
You can find downloads both for Unix-like systems and Window$.
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Posted by Kaiser on Saturday, January 21, 2006
First of all, what’s LaTeX ?
LaTeX is the extension of TeX a language written by Donald Knuth, who was disappointed by the way his mathematical research were published. (you can imagine, integrals, sum symbols, greek letters, fraction, roots, …). Anyway, LaTeX was born : it’s was open, free, and first used by scientific community. These days anyone can used it to write his documents (even a simple letter). LaTeX is typographically powerful (more than M$-word).
How to use LaTeX ?
What do you need ? For my part, i use GNU/Linux. But LaTeX exists on M$-WINDOW$. Two essentiel things :
- A compiler
- An Editor
- Acrobat Reader
On Windows : a free distro is MIKTEX, you can download it here. For beginners, the small package is enough. For the editor, there are WinEdt (shareware) and TeXnicenter (google to find it) (freeware).
On GNU/Linux, normally a latex compiler is given, but you can look for tetex-RPMs. A nice site is this one. TeTeX has a lot of packages (document classes, fonts, …). Then for the editor, you can download Kile. I think it’s the most interesting one because it’s completion-editor (this means that if you type the word class, the editor invites you to complete it with a list of word in its database).
Something else …
To help you start, this is an example of the “Hello world”
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world.
\end{document}
Where to find docs ?
Anywhere on the Net. For beginners, just type “LaTeX tutorial” for example. I advice you “the not so short introduction to latex” a interesting pdf document.
What’s next ?
For those who want to fulfill the experiment, you can download new packages here.
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