[texhax] Installing latex

William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com
Fri Oct 12 22:13:10 CEST 2007


On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Key McKinnis wrote:

> Latex seems hard to install compared to word processors.  Is there
> anyway I could download just the latex.exe file for my macintosh
> (powerpc).

Oh yes, you should also look into LyX:

http://www.lyx.org/

which is an innovative front-end for LaTeX. More Mac OS X specifics  
for it here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac

Also, you may find xelatex a more comfortable latex version if you  
wish to use Unicode and different fonts:

http://scripts.sil.org/xetex

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications




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