[PLUG] MathTeX or the like.

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 06:29 -0700, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> Hey, any of y'all do any math typesetting?
> 
> I started back to school this week and find myself in a position where I
> should be emailing my proofs to my profs.
> 
> I figure PDFs are best, but I'll have to generate them in some relatively
> fast way.
> 
> What do y'all use for equations?
> 
> I'm particularly interested in decent sigma notation, binomial
> coefficients, matrices, and set notation.
> 
> Something with variable styles would also be great... it seems that
> analysis and algebra want to use different symbols for the same ideas.

Pen and paper most of the time :)  FWIW, math majors at Reed use LaTeX
these days (although I've heard alumni bragging about using troff).
OpenOffice also has an equation editor if you don't want to learn the
LaTeX markup and can export PDF directly.

Wil
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