Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:19:05AM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Feb-100 Re: [techtalk] LaTeX by Dan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unfortunately reading the info and man pages to learn \LaTeX{} is like > > trying to read them to learn C. > > Hey, I learned system programming fr

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 9-Feb-100 Re: [techtalk] LaTeX by Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unfortunately reading the info and man pages to learn \LaTeX{} is like > trying to read them to learn C. Hey, I learned system programming from the manpages... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxc

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Mari Wang
In addition to the other resources mentioned already, I've found http://lowt.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/~TeX/tetexdoc/> very helpful. -- Mari Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Glenda R. Snodgrass
> pages. I'm trying to learn it so I can use it for papers for a class I'm > in (plain old pico isn't quite good enough for something I have to turn in > for a grade...) If you're not averse to popular GUI apps, you might want to try the Linux version of Adobe Framemaker 5.5 -- it's in beta, so

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Actually, M13 is official alpha. (still not beta, though) -nicole (hopefully i'm not sending a 'redundant' here, been in lab all afternoon) > Major hint: Mozilla Milestone-anything is still VERY very pre-alpha. > Expect it to choke on a hell of a lot. > > Wait for the beta, at least, before you

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Dan Nguyen > [...] > Unfortunately reading the info and man pages to learn \LaTeX{} is like > trying to read them to learn C. The are very terse and technical. > Like one of the other messages said www.tug.org has lots of useful > introductory documents. One of the guy's at my LUG has an >

[techtalk] Re: Browser reviews (was Re: [grrltalk] YA intro)

2000-02-09 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Nils Philippsen > You have to differentiate between themed widgets and themed widgets that > use pixmaps. Themed widgets alone don't make much speed impact as they're > basically just another color or another font, or different spacing, > behavior, etc. Pixmapped themes are much slower (than n

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Robert Kiesling
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I've got it. And it actually does look like a bug in the HTML. > An tag is opened within the document head, then the head is > closed, but the is still open! The tag doesn't close > until after the head is closed! Not only that, but

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Robert Kiesling
Shivawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The iframe tag is started inside and not closed before > Since you are likely wanting it to affect the body of the page it > should be started after the tag. > As well, it is closed inside the open and close center tags when the > center tag should be clos

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, you wrote: >On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robert Kiesling wrote: > >> > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render >> > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite >> > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Shivawn
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:20:04PM -0500, Robert Kiesling wrote: > try http://www.mainmatter.com/index.html... otherwise, I don't > know... the pages are mostly hand coded, with some HTML tags from > Netscape composer. Please let me know if that's what it is. I see a few things in the fil

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Linda Walsh wrote: > > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render > > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite > > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser > > since it came out, and it's able to r

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > Major hint: Mozilla Milestone-anything is still VERY very pre-alpha. > Expect it to choke on a hell of a lot. > > Wait for the beta, at least, before you go 'eek'. > Actually, that's not true at all. M13 is an official alpha release. On any of the previou

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robert Kiesling wrote: > > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render > > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite > > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser > > since it came out, and it's able

[techtalk] Re: Browser reviews (was Re: [grrltalk] YA intro)

2000-02-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
[F'up set to techtalk] On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Sunnanvind > > I haven't tried Konquerer yet, but it seems from this that it's only drawback > > is the ugly name :) and that I really like the gtk widgets that light up when > > you move the mouse over it. > > Hehe, well if yo

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Jenn V.
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser > since it came out, and it's able to render almost all p

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:08:33AM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: Hello Connie, > What references exist for LaTeX? I have the TeX "gentle introduction" but > I tried doing it, and it didn't work. (I used the tags they suggested, > and latex foo.tex gave me about 30 errors.)

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Linda Walsh
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser > since it came out, and it's able to render almost all pag

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Robert Kiesling
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eeek! Mozilla M13 completely chokes when trying to render > www.mainmatter.com! It just puts up a little gray rectangle! It's quite > possibly a bug in Mozilla, but I've been using it as my primary browser > since it came out, and it's able to

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robert Kiesling wrote: > > What references exist for LaTeX? > > There's one on my web site, http://www.mainmatter.com/. It's in > Texinfo (of all things) format, because it was going to be part of a > LaTeX distribution that crashed and burned (to stretch a metaphor a > weee

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Laurel Fan
http://www.tug.org, the TeX Users Group web page, has resources and tutorials for both TeX and LaTeX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Robert Kiesling
Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What references exist for LaTeX? There's one on my web site, http://www.mainmatter.com/. It's in Texinfo (of all things) format, because it was going to be part of a LaTeX distribution that crashed and burned (to stretch a metaph

[techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
So, I wasn't paying attention and I think I missed a discussion of this before. What references exist for LaTeX? I have the TeX "gentle introduction" but I tried doing it, and it didn't work. (I used the tags they suggested, and latex foo.tex gave me about 30 errors.) I looked at the man pages