# Re: Moving out Mac

• From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>
• To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
• Subject: Re: Moving out Mac
• Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:24:37 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Patrick McSwiggen wrote:

>
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Roy W. Erickson wrote:
> > What I want to do when I get home....
> > -------------------
> > I want to publish my math notes to the web and eventually through a
> > publisher. So I need math formula capable s/w to help me do that. I'm
> > still not satisfied with the basic stuff I see in OOffice.
>
> If you want to publish math (that doesn't look like cr** the way
> anything produced by M\$ products does) you need to use TeX. If you are
> not familiar with it, TeX is a markup language like HTML. E.g., the
> fraction n/2 would be \frac{n}{2}. Unfortunately, I don't know of any
> friendly interfaces on the Mac or linux. Scientific Word for windows

Check out Kile and Lyx for GUI frontends for LaTeX.

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Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs