+1 for LyX. Its easily the best LaTeX specific editor out there for Linux. If you want something a bit lower level, I recommend Kile, which is intended for KDE but works fine in GNOME. Honestly though, a combo of LyX and gvim (if I needed to get at the LaTeX markup) got me through college adv. math courses so they'd be the choice I'd recommend first. On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:05:04AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > I'm in with the LaTeX crowd. You only need to know some basic markup, > and you can have a very presentable document, letter, article, slide > presentation, CD labels, business cards... If you're in need of a > WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor, try LyX. LaTeX has been > getting plenty of development effort in the form of TeXLive > distribution. > > I'm also in agreement about the DVCS, though I tend to use Monotone. I > would place git in second place and Mercurial in third for preference. > Subversion is O.K, but it's not really intended for disconnected > operation. You can't "check in" your changes incrementally if you can't > connect to your central server. All in all, any revision control is > helpful. > > Good luck! > > Chad > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list