Latex Anyone?

[Bob Maxey]

OK, so I find myself suddenly interested in generating high quality PDF files and I happened upon Latex. I am curious if there are any Latex users here today.

I have a project where I need to add some math formulas to some documents and a search for programs to make it easier to generate proper and nice looking formula formatting took me across the Linux Universe where I landed on planet Latex.

My cursory research reveals that Latex is the preference in the science and math community. Further research reveals that it might provide better looking and higher quality output than MS-Word.

If it works out, I might use it for generating some kinds of technical documentation output to pdf files.

Any thoughts, ideas, or issues you all might be aware of? Suggestions, advice, great ideas and the like?

And here I thought I was done with programming. Hrumph!

 

[big_z]

My cursory research reveals that Latex is the preference in the science and math community.

It is. If you're writing a research paper in math or the hard sciences, you're either using LaTeX (or some other TeX variant) or you're being laughed at behind your back.

Further research reveals that it might provide better looking and higher quality output than MS-Word.

For mathematical topics, this is absolutely true.

 

[mikedt]

Searching Google and Bing mages for "latex", doesn't show much about science and math at all.

 

[johnlgalt]

Funny that I see this topic not 30 minutes after I saw this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2005618

If you want to skip the thread at XDA, here is the link to a (still in Beta) TeXPortal app for Android: TeXPortal