Re: Easy ways to DE-orbit

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 16:48:35 MST


Michael S. Lorrey writes:

> Wow, Amara, I didn't think anyone wrote books in TeX anymore. The

Well, astrophysics _is_ heavy on math, and there is no package out
there which can typeset equations better/faster than (La)TeX. Also,
there is http://www.lyx.org/ , which takes a lot of learning pains for
(La)TeX newbies.

> publishing people all look at me weird when I tell them I use Ventura,
> like I'm some neanderthal, even though version 8 is actually more
> capable, powerful, and versatile than Quark and Pagemaker (and its a
> windows app now too...)

I am sure that scientific publishers won't give you the bozo look when
you mention TeX.



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