Archives for the 'Latex' Category
Niceboxes (latex)
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
This nice sty comes from an example I found on the web. The code is not mine. However, I wasn’t able to find again the original code (and the original author) to give credit. There may be some small modifications I made: if it does not work, it’s likely it’s my fault.
You can define things [...]
Latex Companion
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
And eventually from Amazon arrived the Latex Companion…
I leafed through it and have to say it seems a wonderful book. There’s plenty of information (in my opinion more than other book on Latex like the “Guide to latex” or Lamport’s book — that seems more suited to a beginner latex user).
In fact [...]
Latex + Emacs vs. MathType + Word
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Recently I had to write two simple scientific documents. Their subject and structure was similar, so I decided to compare Latex + Emacs and Word + MathType.
Emacs was Aquamacs, standard version, configured to work with Texniscope. You can read my last two posts about Aquamacs w/th Latex and Texniscope. Aquamacs is itself almost configured: of [...]
Texniscope (DVI previewer)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Texniscope is a beautifull DVI (and PDF) viewer. It is free and well integrated with MacOS X.
I needed such an application. In the X11 world there is plenty of dvi previewers (xdvi, kdvi), but for the MacOS there were none, a part from MacDVI, shareware and ported from the old MacOS (and less user-friedly [...]
Aquamacs 0.9.7 is out (Printing + Latex + … )
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Download/Scarica
Among new features, you can print right out of the box (using Preview.app) and Auctex is beautifully integrated with Emacs. In fact it is the more user-friendly and more complete latex editing environment I’ve ever used.
And don’t forget to read this, if you want to make it even more user-friendly.
In short:
Copied txs-search.el in my [...]