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- | LaTeX (pronounced laytech) is an enhancement of the Tex document creation software. Tex is the creation of Donald Knuth who is a computer programmer. TeX was released in 1978 and later Tex was improved upon by Leslie Lamport in 1984. That is why it is called LaTeX. LaTeX has been around for a long time, and I call LaTeX the Great Grandma of desktop publishing. LaTeX is more structured than modern desktop publishing applications. There are many editor applications for creating LaTeX documents, and it can be easy to call LaTeX a word processing program. Nothing is further from the truth – LaTeX is a language and it is a language that has to be learned in order to be successful at creating documents. LaTeX has a steep learning curve, and some people claim that it is so much faster and easier to use a word processor. Except that: "Many people discover LaTeX after years of struggling with word processors and desktop publishing systems, and are amazed to find that TeX has been around for nearly 25 [+] years and they hadn’t heard of it. “It’s not a conspiracy, just a well-kept secret known only to a few million people”, as one anonymous user put it." | + | ===== 1 ===== |
- | People who have had enough | + | **LaTeX (pronounced latèque) is an enhancement |
- | As you can imagine, there was a firestorm over this one; I thought that this was one of the best comments: I’ve shown people LaTeX documents of mine, the content of which they are completely ignorant, and they always remark how pretty it looks. I’ve never gotten a compliment like that about a Word document! | + | People who have had enough of the problems encountered with word processors, especially Microsoft Word, have found LaTeX to be much easier to use, and a more productive, stable method. At the same time that I am writing this, two researchers from Germany published a paper comparing Latex to Microsoft Word. Their findings favoured Microsoft Word for efficiency, but not only that: the two authors of the paper suggested that researchers at universities be prevented from using Latex. Many scholars weighed in on this strange conclusion and found the study to be flawed, if not manipulated, |
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+ | LaTeX (prononciation létech) est une amélioration du logiciel de création de documents Tex. Tex fut créé par Donald Knuth, un programmeur. TeX est sorti en 1978 et, plus tard, en 1984, fut amélioré par Leslie Lamport. D'où son nom, LaTeX. LaTeX existe depuis très longtemps et je l'ai surnommé l' | ||
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+ | Les individus qui en ont assez des problèmes rencontrés avec des logiciels de traitement de texte, surtout avec Microsoft Word, trouvent LaTeX beaucoup plus facile à utiliser, plus productif et plus stable. Au moment où j' | ||
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+ | **As you can imagine, there was a firestorm over this one; I thought that this was one of the best comments: I’ve shown people LaTeX documents of mine, the content of which they are completely ignorant, and they always remark how pretty it looks. I’ve never gotten a compliment like that about a Word document! | ||
See this site if you want to read more about this debate: http:// | See this site if you want to read more about this debate: http:// | ||
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Forty years ago when I was at university, I would have thought I had died and gone to heaven if I had LaTeX to write my papers with. Over the years, I have taken some stabs at LaTeX but it was after I completed a beamer slide project using LaTeX on my Raspberry Pi that I realised that LaTeX has a lot of power with very little overhead. Now I use LaTeX as often as I can, almost abandoning LibreOffice entirely. I have to admit that there are some things that are very easy to do in LibreOffice compared to LaTeX, but the end product from LaTeX is so much better. | Forty years ago when I was at university, I would have thought I had died and gone to heaven if I had LaTeX to write my papers with. Over the years, I have taken some stabs at LaTeX but it was after I completed a beamer slide project using LaTeX on my Raspberry Pi that I realised that LaTeX has a lot of power with very little overhead. Now I use LaTeX as often as I can, almost abandoning LibreOffice entirely. I have to admit that there are some things that are very easy to do in LibreOffice compared to LaTeX, but the end product from LaTeX is so much better. | ||
- | The Latex community is a good example of what the free software movement is all about. It has, in a way, made this article difficult to write as there is so much good help out there on the Internet. | + | The Latex community is a good example of what the free software movement is all about. It has, in a way, made this article difficult to write as there is so much good help out there on the Internet.** |
- | Why Bother to Learn Latex? | + | Comme vous pouvez l' |
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+ | Allez voir ce site, qui a un lien vers l' | ||
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+ | Il y a quarante ans, quand je faisais encore des études universitaires, | ||
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+ | La communauté LaTeX est un bon exemple du mouvement FOSS. En un sens, elle a rendu cet article difficile à faire, car il y a tant d'aide valable sur le Net. | ||
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+ | **Why Bother to Learn Latex? | ||
• There is no Meta-data in a Latex file. In some work environments, | • There is no Meta-data in a Latex file. In some work environments, | ||
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Anyone who has done coding in HTML will be able to pick up on LaTeX much easier than someone who has not, or has created HTML only in a WYSIWYG editor. | Anyone who has done coding in HTML will be able to pick up on LaTeX much easier than someone who has not, or has created HTML only in a WYSIWYG editor. | ||
- | The best method to install would be to go to the Ubuntu Software Centre and install TeX Live. If you want to be on the cutting edge of Tex, you could install TeX Live from the Tex Users Group. Either way will give you the files required. The instructions are here: https:// | + | The best method to install would be to go to the Ubuntu Software Centre and install TeX Live. If you want to be on the cutting edge of Tex, you could install TeX Live from the Tex Users Group. Either way will give you the files required. The instructions are here: https:// |
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+ | • Il n'y a pas de méta-données dans un fichier LaTeX. Cela peut être critique dans certains environnements de travail. | ||
+ | • J'ai vu de nombreux témoignages favorables à LaTeX venant d' | ||
+ | • Oubliez Powerpoint : la classe de documents « Beamer » (vidéoprojecteur) dans LaTeX crée d' | ||
+ | • On peut exécuter LaTeX sur du matériel très limité, par exemple sur un vieux portable sous XP avec 500 Mo de RAM ou sur un ordinateur Raspberry Pi. | ||
+ | • C'est une nouvelle compétence qui sera sans doute beaucoup plus utile dans la vie d'une jeune personne que les meilleurs scores aux jeux vidéo. Présentez un « défi LaTeX » à un adolescent pour qu'il apprenne des choses et abandonne la manette pour changer. | ||
+ | • C'est tellement chouette de pouvoir créer toutes sortes de choses magnifiques avec un fichier ASCII. | ||
- | Selecting An Editor | + | Commencer |
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+ | Quiconque a fait du codage en HTML trouvera LaTeX beaucoup plus facile à apprendre que ceux qui n'en ont pas fait, ou qui ont créé de l'HTML uniquement dans un éditeur WYSIWYG. | ||
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+ | **Selecting An Editor | ||
It is necessary to select a LaTeX text editor for creating LaTeX documents. There are lots to choose from within Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Centre and recommending one is the stuff that flame wars can be made of. | It is necessary to select a LaTeX text editor for creating LaTeX documents. There are lots to choose from within Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Centre and recommending one is the stuff that flame wars can be made of. | ||
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I prefer any editor that has pull-down menus listed in a logical way – the formating code required to create documents. Latex is a huge environment with lots of code out there. As we are learning, it is helpful to be able to see the code we need. It is also helpful to have a built-in viewer to display our document as it will be printed. | I prefer any editor that has pull-down menus listed in a logical way – the formating code required to create documents. Latex is a huge environment with lots of code out there. As we are learning, it is helpful to be able to see the code we need. It is also helpful to have a built-in viewer to display our document as it will be printed. | ||
- | There are three LaTeX editors that I have liked: LaTexila, TexMaker, and the text editor Geany with LaTeX extensions. LaTeXila would be a good choice to get your feet wet as it looks like many text editors that you have used before. TexMaker looks confusing and complicated, | + | There are three LaTeX editors that I have liked: LaTexila, TexMaker, and the text editor Geany with LaTeX extensions. LaTeXila would be a good choice to get your feet wet as it looks like many text editors that you have used before. TexMaker looks confusing and complicated, |
- | After you have downloaded the software, I would recommend watching this video: 'Learn Latex in Five minutes' | + | Choisir un éditeur |
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+ | Il faut sélectionner un éditeur de texte LaTeX pour créer des documents LaTeX. Vous en trouverez beaucoup dans Synaptic ou la Logithèque Ubuntu, et je ne me hasarderais pas à en recommander un de peur de représailles. | ||
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+ | Je préfère tout éditeur ayant des menus déroulants listés de façon logique - le code de formatage nécessaire pour créer des documents. LaTeX est un environnement énorme et des tonnes de code existent. Puisque nous sommes en train d' | ||
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+ | Il y a trois éditeurs LaTeX qui m'ont plu : LaTeXila, TexMaker et l' | ||
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+ | **After you have downloaded the software, I would recommend watching this video: 'Learn Latex in Five minutes' | ||
Before you write your first LaTeX document, one initial bit of advice: always create a folder for the document that you are working on and keep all of the files related to the document in it. This will serve you well when you try more complex documents. Go get your feet wet, and we will come back to this next issue. | Before you write your first LaTeX document, one initial bit of advice: always create a folder for the document that you are working on and keep all of the files related to the document in it. This will serve you well when you try more complex documents. Go get your feet wet, and we will come back to this next issue. | ||
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- | John Eddie Kerr is a Law Librarian at a county law library in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Ubuntu powers his desktop at work and at home. He is a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Linux Users Group and the WFTL- LUG. | + | John Eddie Kerr is a Law Librarian at a county law library in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Ubuntu powers his desktop at work and at home. He is a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Linux Users Group and the WFTL- LUG.** |
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+ | Une fois les logiciels téléchargés, | ||
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+ | Au moins, maintenant, vous connaissez l'un des secrets les mieux gardés au monde. | ||
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+ | John Eddie Kerr est bibliothécaire en droit dans une bibliothèque de droit du comté de Guelph, Ontario au Canada. Son ordinateur de bureau, à la maison comme au travail, est sous Ubuntu. Il est membre du Groupe d' |
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