On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:11:14PM +0200, Emre Sahin wrote: > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steve Lamb said... > >> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance > >> it > >> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really > >> chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose > >> so far. Unless I planned on breaking it up by chapters and figuring out > >> how to merge it all together later I didn't see AbiWord being able to > >> deal with the 300-600 pages I am shooting for. > > > > Ok, by a circuitous route, we've got to why I asked my earlier question. > > > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to > > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and LaTeX > > on Linux. In all other cases, I use vim. > > > > You can try AUCTeX on Emacs. AFAIK it comes with Emacs 22 on Lenny. > > My experience with AUCTeX is better than WinEdt, with tools like > RefTeX etc, and also preview for formulas and headings. AUCTeX made me > to convert from LyX. > > There is also a KDE LaTeX editor which I can't remember the name... It > looks somewhat like WinEdt, so much that I didn't further try to learn it.
kile? > > Also on the original thread: why nobody mentioned Gnus as an > alternative to Thunderbird? It can do anything (from what you say) > mutt does, and also can show you attached images, wash HTML etc. ;) > (If you're not using it from shell, though.) Emacs's bidirectional text rendering is still non-existing. I recall that there was a patch for bidi support in Emacs. But I have no idea what ever came up with it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
