A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

Re: A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

On 02.09.2009, at 13:56, QUINTIN Guillaume wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you guys know a (working) typesetting system other than latex ?

troff is definitely working and different from latex. Don't know if  
it's useful for general typesetting. There people who use it:

  http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/19.memacros/paper.pdf

> And a good soft to make presentations ?

magicpoint:

  http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

Sebastian

Re: A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, QUINTIN
Guillaume<coincoin169g <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you guys know a (working) typesetting system other than latex ?
> And a good soft to make presentations ?

A key point is: do you need to typeset complicated mathematical
expressions? I'm not aware of anything that has such good built-in
support for automatically typesetting complicated mathematical
expressions and fonts containing the symbols as the TeX family. (Using
MathML is, I gather, capable of giving the same results but more
complicated.) Any wysiwyg thing based on selecting and fine-tuning
character and operator positions with the mouse WILL drive you crazy
when you decide to change notation in a large part of your document
for consistency reasons. Most powerpoint presentations that involve
math tend to use programs that create graphic images of equations
rendered by TeX code; never seen many OpenOffice presentations to know
if they do the same thing. So if you're writing mathematics you'll
probably have TeX/LaTeX installed anyway, so the question is whether
you want to add an additional typesetting system that you'll use for
other typesetting or not.

Of course, if you have no need to do mathematical expressions the
above consideration doesn't apply.

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Thanks for your anwsers and how do you want your text editor ?

Hi all,

I did not had time to thank you all for your answers on the thread
concerning LaTeX and typesetting systems.
I finally solved my issue, it was a problem with epstopdf and convert
from imagemagick.
When I have an eps picture with some dimensions,
=> on the computer at my work, convert conserve the dimensions of the
picture while epstopdf does not. It resizes the picture to A4 format.
=> At home my computer does exactly the contrary, epstopdf does
conserve dimensions while convert does not. It resizes the picture to
A4 format.
I use convert and epstopdf without arguments except the filenames, so
I don't why this behavior ! (Maybe cause I was stone or drunk or both
...)

$ convert mypic.eps mypic.pdf
$ epstopdf mypic.eps
On both PCs.

Maybe there is a difference between versions I don't know and I have
not searched deeper.
At home I have Archlinux and at work CentOS.

But anyway, the eps->pdf trick is not the main subject of my post.

I have seen on the suckless project ideas webpage that you wish to
have a "Yet another less sucking editor" (= YALSE ? or LSED ? or FALSE
? why not ?).

What features should be included in YALSE ?
I do NOT want to begin a troll about VI vs EMACS vs WHATEVER.

Does YALSE have to support

=> a plugin system ? extensions ? scripting language (LUA ?) ? (so one
can embed a terminal within YALSE)
=> syntax highlighting ?
=> tabs ? many buffers ?
=> only basic features : cut, copy, paste, search, replace, inserting
other text files ?
=> block selection ?
=> an (optional ?) GUI ?
=> ASCII only ? or UTF-8? and all? or many? character encodings ?
=> several modes like vi ? or like EMACS ? or an hybrid ? or like
another editor ? vile ? nano ? (maybe the troll-able part)
=> costumizable shortcuts ?
=> when pushing the down button, should YALSE go to the next visible
line or to the next real line ?

Can YALSE depend on

=> ncurses ?
=> strictly nothing ?
=> a limited number of LOC ?
=> others libs ?

A good start could be the basic features : cut, copy, paste, search,
replace, inserting other text files plus block selection and only one
file at a time ?

What is your opinion ?

Kind regards.