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Tangentially related: How does one write 'modern' LaTeX today? What packages/tools do people use to ensure their documents work properly?
by zmanji 15y ago
Tangentially related: How does one write 'modern' LaTeX today? What packages/tools do people use to ensure their documents work properly?
- w1ntermute 15y agoLooking at the compile script for my CV, I'm currently using latex, bibtex, and xelatex, along with sed to work around some nasty bibliography implementation issues. LaTeX really needs to be just revamped whole. I haven't been following the development of LuaTeX or LaTeX3, but I hope that's what they both do. The syntax needs to be simplified, concerns that no longer exist thanks to improved hardware (such as super-optimized algorithms for hyphenation) need to be discarded, and all of the popular 3rd party packages need to be integrated into a single, cohesive piece of software.
- ssp 15y agoWhat are the problems with Liang's algorithm? On a modern computer you could easily store the entire dictionary, but it's not clear that that's actually an improvement since it wouldn't be as good at dealing with unknown words.
- sciurus 15y agoHave you looked at ConTeXt? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt
- enormousfaggot 15y agoTeX Live or MikTex (Windows) can get you started; they include the standard compilers, dependencies, and tex2pdf-like scripts.
- larsberg 15y agoIn our research group, almost everybody just uses emacs to write and aspell to check. One person also uses TeXLive, but he is the one non-emacs person for development as well (uses bbedit, I believe).