From: s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:28:12 GMT

In article <1epgffINN5rp@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:

   In article <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> vpopesc@opus.uucp (Valentin Popescu) writes:
   >Is there an amiga wordprocessor (WYSIWYG, NOT TeX), that supports
   >equation layout? (such as FrameMaker, etc)? I looked at FinalCopy in a
   >store, and although they claimed math support, it turned out to be a
   >very expensivce calculator. :)   (unless I didn't know how to use it).
   >
   >So, in other words, I would like to write documents that include
   >differential equations, so I would need support for the
   >integral/sumation signs. Any help out there? Anyone promising this in
   >any upcoming apps?

   This isn't going to help you at all.  Hit "n" now.  ;)

   I'm an EE student.  The only suitable application I know of to write
   diffeq's in (pronounced "diffie cues" around here, kind of like Susie
   Q's) ;)  is TeX.

Yes. TeX is definitely the BEST.

   Now, I know that's not a huge help, because you want to be able to
   look at what you're doing, right?

   That's why I bought AmigaTeX.  It's got what I consider to be the
   second-best version of TeX available, the first going to the
   NeXT--they were both written by the same folk.  Anyways, in AmigaTeX,
   there's a really first-rate preview option.  So I say learn TeX.  For
   a long time, I wanted a word processor that would have everything I
   wanted.  I gave up, and learned TeX.  It wasn't easy.  However, I'll
   never go back.  I'll never regret it.  Though the road is long, once
   the road of TeX is taken, the other roads seem to be dirt and gravel
   paths.

   Greg

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I have found a solution which in my opinion is quite easy to learn and 
very flexible too.

I've started to use Texinfo to do my wordprocessing. Mostly documentations
for my programs. Texinfo is very easy to learn (takes very little time)
and it also allows insertion of TeX 'command sequences'. 

So you can make all the normal text you need by writing your documents 
with normal editor, inserting Texinfo commands to start new chapters,
sections, appendixes, automatic indexes etc... and use normal tex
commands to insert mathematical equations.

Texinfo is made by GNU peoples and it uses a normal TeX to make the
documents.


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