Text Editing
The recommended text editor (for those who do not already have a preferred editor under Unix) is emacs, because of its adaptability to different types of documents; for instance, it has modes to assist with the writing of such things as Fortran, C, Perl, LaTeX and HTML. Emacs is available on all the machines in the Institute.
Most people in the Institute use the markup language LaTeX for both word processing (e.g, letters and reports) and mathematical documents (e.g, papers and theses). Documents are written (using any text editor) in the LaTeX language, and then the latex program is run on the resulting text to produce a printable typeset document. LaTeX is very flexible, allowing you to make your own decisions about the way your finished document is laid out. See the LaTeX section for more info.
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The recommended text editor (for those who do not already have a preferred editor under Unix) is emacs, because of its adaptability to different types of documents; for instance, it has modes to assist with the writing of such things as Fortran, C, Perl, LaTeX and HTML. Emacs is available on all the machines in the Institute.
Most people in the Institute use the markup language LaTeX for both word processing (e.g, letters and reports) and mathematical documents (e.g, papers and theses). Documents are written (using any text editor) in the LaTeX language, and then the latex program is run on the resulting text to produce a printable typeset document. LaTeX is very flexible, allowing you to make your own decisions about the way your finished document is laid out. See the LaTeX section for more info.
Got a document you don't know how to view? See
- Viewing and printing specific types of file [ps,eps,dvi,pdf,doc,wpd,gif,jpeg,tiff]