Several posters mentioned LaTeX as the application of choice for technical documents.
LyX is a Free Software WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX.
The download for Windows systems is http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
More about LyX, documentation, downloads for un*x systems are at http://www.lyx.org
The advantages of LyX are:
- all the aesthetics of LaTeX documents and equations
- easy to embed graphics
- joining the LaTeX community
- high quality WYSIWYG and graphical-user interface
- spell-checking, styles
- output direct to PDF
- free
The disadvantages of LyX (for Windows) are:
- requires a working installation of (also free) MikTeX
- pathnames cannot include spaces " ". LyX should be
installed in (for example) "c:\lyx\" rather than in
"c:\program files\" and document files should be in (for
example) "c:\docs\" rather than in "c:\my documents\"
Although many users will ultimately prefer to edit LaTeX
directly, Lyx is excellent either as a gateway to LaTeX or
for users who prefer WYSIWYG/GUI.
Best,
Michael Ash
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:41:33 -0500
> From: "Mary (Merlin) Marshall" <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: OT: your favorite math equations editor
>
> Greetings Statalist,
>
> I have a collegue who teaches dynamic and thermodynamic meteorology at Ohio
> State University. His operating system is Micro$oft Win2000 (maybe
> Win98). He has been thinking about using Powerpoint to teach his classes,
> but his lectures involve deriving lots of equations and he does not have a
> good equation editor. This equation editor would also be used to generate
> equations in research articles for publication in meteorology journals.
>
> So, I have a question for all of you using the Windows operating system who
> must write a lot of equations in your publications, lectures, etc. What
> editor would you recommend/what is your favorite editor? If you have
> experience with more than one equation editor, what were the pluses and
> minuses of each?
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