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Use LaTeX
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Josh Gaber
Put 1000 monkeys in front of 1000 terminals, and they'll eventually code Windows Vista
I use open office. the
I use open office. the equation editor is prety good, once you get usto the syntax you can type it very fast. if you type it in the correct syntax, you can make it an equation object later.
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Matt Englert
SOCIS System Admin
I've been using OO.O, I was
I've been using OO.O, I was just hoping for more fancy features for note taking... tagging and hierarchies of documents and such. The closest of I've found is Basket, but 1) it's KDE so it needs lots of extraneous libraries, and 2) it doesn't support equations, which is a deal breaker. Apart from that it's more what I was looking for.
Thanks, though.
Also, I did the LaTeX stuff while I was writing essays and stuff is highschool, and I haven't used it since. From what I recall, I'd have to keep compiling it and opening it to check whether the equation was correct since there's no preview of any sort, and that seems like a bit of a drawback when trying to quickly type notes in class.
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These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age.
It is a bit of a drawback,
It is a bit of a drawback, but if you're fluent enough in the language, it's not a problem. I use Texmaker, because it has a series of formats and symbols included with the program in case you don't know something. And I've memorized enough of the commands that I can actually write my notes in class while the professor is lecturing. I used it when I took Advanced Calculus, and I had little problem staying caught up with the lecturer. It's not for everyone, but its worth checking out.
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Josh Gaber
Put 1000 monkeys in front of 1000 terminals, and they'll eventually code Windows Vista
Lyx is good too.
LyX is a pretty decent latex editor as well.
I tend to keep notes in markdown, a structured plain text format. There's a converter called pandoc that will translate to latex, html, and a few other formats as well. It also translates latex equations to mathml and html.
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Tony Thompson
I second Lyx. There's a
I second Lyx. There's a small learning curve but it's very useful software.
I'm having problems get sum
I'm having problems get sum notation to look right in lyx... I have it set to use displaystyle, but it's not showing the following sub and superscripts above and below the sigma symbol - rather they're showing up to the right like normal sub and supers. I've looked around and haven't seen any advice other than to use displaymode, which I'm already doing. Has anyone else run into this problem?
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These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age.
I think it does that when
I think it does that when there isn't any room to put it above and below (ie you have a division with one sum over something else). I had the same problem on and off, but it's not really that big of a deal.
How about a local wiki with
How about a local wiki with a module to do equations? The desktop version of MoinMoin might be good.
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Andrew
Good point.
TiddlyWiki is nice. It's pure html, and runs client side.
Dokuwiki is lightweight, php and can export latex.
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Tony Thompson
I have MoinMoin and
I have MoinMoin and TiddlyWiki a shot, but ran into some issue with the jsMath/MathML rendering in Ubuntu - no matter how much I plead and cajole and rebuild font-caches I can't get Firefox to render the math using the actual TeX fonts. It's trying to use the image-based math fonts, and they fail when you have something like expression^(sqrt(some other expression))
Given that, I'll give LyX a shot. Since I can preview equations as I write them, it seems like it might work a bit better for me.
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These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more... civilized age.