[Tugindia] LaTeX in schools

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Mon Apr 7 11:25:27 CEST 2003


"Sridhar M.A." <mas at uomphysics.net> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:51:48AM +0530, Amitabh Trehan wrote:

>    > Woaaa! This is an important discussion. I am only too happy to
>    > report that computer novices in our M.Sc. courses at Mahatma
>    > Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya have taken to Linux
>    > and LaTeX (yes, hand creation usig GVim) like ducks to water,
>    > but I envisage a shortage of teachers to carry out the job
>    > meaningfully.
> 
> Nice to know that. Our students, not all but most, took a fancy to
> LaTeX. In fact, those with exposure to Word were more vocal in their
> support for LaTeX :-D They were won over by the quality, not by ads.
> 
> On the editor side, the camp was divided between vim and ktexmaker2.

In this case, choice is a nice thing.  Be sure that one available
choice is Emacs+AUCTeX+preview-latex: this is one combination that is
rather popular particularly where mathematical notation is concerned,
and Emacs is the editor of choice for many people turning to software
development.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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