Part of the issue is whatever software and workflow are decided upon, it has to just work. A little bit of markup might be OK, as these are going to be relatively smart people using it. But if the markup gets too insane, it's not gonna fly. Is there any way to pull dynamic content by putting tags in a LaTeX document? -- jay austad | 612.423.1433 | austad at signal15.com On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Adam Morris wrote: > +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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list