[Tugindia] LaTeX in schools
Sridhar M.A.
mas at uomphysics.net
Tue Apr 8 22:06:39 CEST 2003
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:25:27AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> "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.
>
I fully agree with that. I have about 20 machines all running debian
woody. I have installed vim, emacs, auctex and lots of similar stuff and
demoed things one day. After that it was their choice.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A.
Real Users never use the Help key.
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