[TriLUG] latex & thesis prep - what am i getting into?

[Carlos J. Cela]

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.

Carlos-


Neil Roeth wrote:

>On Aug 27, Ed Hill (ed at eh3.com) 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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