Re: For The Typesetting Geeks

[David Rosenthal davidrosenthal@xxxxxxxx]

All very interesting!

How are you?

All the best,

David


----- Original Message -----
From: David Auerbach 
Date: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:15 am
Subject: Re: For The Typesetting Geeks

> I'm pretty sure that every math, logic and computer science journal is
> typeset from LaTex. Those who write for those journals know how to
> (must know how to) write directly in LaTex (at least the simple
> mark-up portion of it). There are front-ends to make some things
> easier and what amount to canned style-sets. Googling with get you
> its history and more details (keyword: Knuth)
> It makes typesetting equations, integrals, matrices, tree-structures,
> etc. trivial or near trivial. (for an extreme example Google: LaTex Begriffsschrift)
>
> Here's a real-life minor example. Someone has made available a very
> good free logic text. The PDF is available, but so is the LaTex
> version. That's handy because the author produced the PDF using one
> set of standard logic symbols (⊃, ∧, (x)...) whereas I use another (→,
> &, ∀). No problem, a simple change to the prefix at the top of the
> file and we're done.
>
>
>
>
> David Auerbach                           auerbach@xxxxxxxx
> Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
> NCSU
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8103
>
> On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:54 AM,  wrote:
>
> > Hi Kari,
> >
> > I've never used LaTex, and I don't know all that much about it, but
> I'd
> > imagine it holds some of the same charms for its users as XyWrite does
> > for us.
> >
> > It's non-GUI, text-centric, and very powerful. But while XyWrite is
> a
> > word processor, LaTex is a composition engine; you markup (extensively)
> > your text and run it through the composer app and out comes a formatted
> > document. It outputs to PDF or DVI (which I've never heard of).
> >
> > That's about all I know (and probably half of that is wrong).
> >
> > -B
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Kari Eveli
> >
> > Brian,
> >
> > I certainly belong to the typesetting geek crowd having worked a lot
> > with customized fonts and professional typography. I have never used
> > LaTeX, so please elaborate a bit. How do you go about to typeset a text
> > with it? And, more importantly, why would one choose LaTeX over InDesign
> > or Quark? OK, it is free. but besides that...
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kari Eveli
> > LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> > lexitec@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > *** Lexitec Online ***
> > English summary of our services: http://www.lexitec.fi/sitesummary.html
> > FileOpen-based ebook packaging and support:
> > http://www.lexitec.fi/fileopen.html
> > Acrobat Reader Treasure Trove: http://www.lexitec.fi/acrobat-reader.html
> > English-Finnish-English Computer Terms:
> > http://www.lexitec.fi/glossary.html
> > XyWrite Utilities: http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/utility.html
> > Home page (in Finnish): http://www.lexitec.fi/
> >
> >
>
>