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You might want to consider Open Office also. It is free, it can
generate PDF's as output (among many other formats, including M$ Word)
and has a very good math editor.<br>
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Carlos-<br>
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Neil Roeth wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Aug 27, Ed Hill (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ed@eh3.com">ed@eh3.com</a>) wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:12, Mike Mueller wrote:
> >
> > I thought someone would mention DocBook in this thread. Is db not used for
> > dissertations? IANAGS.
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Generally, people choose commercial word processors because they're
> familiar with them. They choose LaTeX (or similar) because they want
> their math to look good.
>
> I've seen theses and dissertations produced using:
>
> - LaTeX and other TeX-based distributions
> - WordPerfect
> - MS Word
> - typewriter
> - nroff/troff (!)
>
> but none using an SGML- or XML-based package like DocBook. If anyone
> has done it or knows of an example, please post it to the list. I'd
> like to see how well it handles math.
Depends on how complicated the math is; DocBook can do simple math. The
attached PDF and DocBook SGML source for it have a few examples. To give you
some idea of the limits, I included one case, a subscript within a
superscript, that it did incorrectly (the last line in the example document).
I haven't used MathML. The sequence to generate the PDF was SGML -> TeX ->
DVI -> PS -> PDF, so if you have a TeX format file that makes your document
meet some requirements, you could probably use it in the TeX -> DVI step.
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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<book>
<title>Math Example</title>
<chapter>
<title>Example</title>
<para>PV of CF today:
CF×∑exp[-f<subscript>i</subscript>t<subscript>i</subscript>]</para>
<para>PV of CF at each future point in time <emphasis>j</emphasis>:
CF×∑<subscript>i>j</subscript>exp[-f<subscript>i</subscript>t<subscript>i</subscript>]</para>
<para>The relationship between the price of a future and the implied rate
is P=100×(1−R÷4), where R is a simple annualized
rate, so a change in the price of a future is exactly equal to a change in the
rate implied by the future.</para>
<para>If rate f<subscript>k</subscript> changes by one basis point, then
the PV of CF today and for all points is changed by
CF×∑exp<superscript>-0.0001×t<subscript>i</subscript>
</superscript><footnote><para>Footnote here</para></footnote></para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Example</title>
<para>PV of CF today:
CF×∑exp[-f<subscript>i</subscript>t<subscript>i</subscript>]</para>
<para>PV of CF at each future point in time <emphasis>j</emphasis>:
CF×∑<subscript>i>j</subscript>exp[-f<subscript>i</subscript>t<subscript>i</subscript>]</para>
<para>The relationship between the price of a future and the implied rate
is P=100×(1−R÷4), where R is a simple annualized
rate, so a change in the price of a future is exactly equal to a change in the
rate implied by the future.</para>
<para>If rate f<subscript>k</subscript> changes by one basis point, then
the PV of CF today and for all points is changed by
CF×∑exp<superscript>-0.0001×t<subscript>i</subscript>
</superscript><footnote><para>Footnote here</para></footnote></para>
</chapter>
</book>
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