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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:58:29 -0600
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: latex on fbsd
Message-ID:  <d4c53e2a-2063-c39b-9946-0e2305a927d4@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <7c7b8992-053a-b22f-da45-b6cfaf3b753b@dreamchaser.org> <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On 4/16/19 5:27 AM, Polytropon wrote:

> Depending on the kind and scope of your work, using "plain
> LaTeX" with your editor of choice, and then simply running
> the command "pdflatex filename.tex", could be the easiest
> thing - less overhead, less distraction, less stuff to manually
> adjust in the GUI. (I'm saying this as a person who does
> 99 % of all paperwork in "plain LaTeX", with the special
> case where LaTeX is generated automatically from special
> tools.)

Thanks, pdflatex is what I needed to know.

> On the other hand, starting LaTeX with a WYSIWYG environment
> is nothing bad, as long as you don't look into the horror markup
> it often tends to generate... ;-)

Thanks for the heads-up; will check that.
For what I'm doing I should only be adding / modifying text, so no
additional markup.  If the tool doesn't transform existing stuff it
might work.

Thanks,
Gary



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