Re: Writing technical text

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Date: 10/19/05

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    Yes, there's Lyx and there's a commercial wysiwyg latex editor that my
    photonics friends at university used to rave about - can't remember the
    name of it though and it wasn't cheap - about 300 GBP=450 USD by memory.

    But these are rather like HTML editors - they don't give me the control I
    crave - and unless they are very good at not messing around my hand
    written code I have no time for them. Doesn't stop me from trying to
    make a good wysiwyg HTML editor though!

    Be prepared to ask lots of questions when using latex, rather than get
    frustrated. It's like unix - there's a simple way of doing most things
    but sometimes it's non-obvious. If there is a latex mailing list out
    there join it, and let us know about it too whilst you are at it!

    Best Wishes,

    Max. 

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