LaTeX

[w1z4rd]

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

http://www.latex-project.org

Lets you do some great stuff with text:

 

[feo]

http://www.latex-project.org

Lets you do some great stuff with text:

Yep I used it last year for my varsity projects and I love it, makes docs looks so professional. Also the code is pretty easy to debug.

 

[icyrus]

w1z4rd have you ever used docbook? I would be interested in some comparisons as I know latex well but not docbook.

 

[wmaker]

Belongs under the topic: Programming, Software Help & Linux (Apache, mySQL, PHP etc)?

Not exactly "science", rather typesetting software with very good support for math/formulae... The spawn of Knuth

 

[w1z4rd]

w1z4rd have you ever used docbook? I would be interested in some comparisons as I know latex well but not docbook.

No, I havent, I am still getting my mind around LaTeX

 

[wmaker]

If I may add, I've used DocBook. The creator of DocBook, Norman Walsh (nwalsh.com), originally moved on from TeX. See e.g. his book online: Making TeX Work

Math support in DocBook: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html

 

[w1z4rd]

If I may add, I've used DocBook. The creator of DocBook, Norman Walsh (nwalsh.com), originally moved on from TeX. See e.g. his book online: Making TeX Work

Math support in DocBook: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html

Myadsl never ceases to amaze me at the skills and talent that can come from its members. Thanks for the information!

 

[BCO]

Damn, and here I thought this thread was gonna be about gimp suits and stuff. Oh well.

 

[Charlie.]

I used LaTeX for a while, last year. Initially, I thought it rocked. After a while, however, I did become a little tired of the workflow - always having to break the flow of editing to jump back to the front of the document and define another macro to do something for the first time.

On the other hand, I had some awesome macros in the end, including some that would create infinite sum formulae, insert Fourier integrals at will, even write dx/dt with correctly italicised x and t characters and regular d's. Woot.