Tex, latex, Latex, WinEdt, or editor or Microsoft Word 2003,2007, 2010, 2013.
When you submit an article to publish in a journal as Msw.doc you come across some journals who don't accept that format and just accept Latex. Why is this? What are the benefits of this? And what word processor would you recommend for mathematical articles?
Dear Raheam,
I understand that using latex seems to
be a technological leap backwards, when
you are used to wysiwyg text editors such
as MS Word.
Latex provides you with a much greater
flexibility of usage. Of course this complex
interface looks confusing at first but as
more or less professional writers, we
have long-term benefit from getting used
to latex.
The benefits are especially great when having
to typeset mathematical formula. I use
pdflatex as a command-line compiler, and
vim as a text editor. It's not the easiest approach,
but its highly effective once accomodated to the
system.
Best
Let me add to what Justus Schwabedal have already said. To write math there is nothing better than LaTex. But it is not only that, is much more. To plan your work you have to use LaTeX, again. Write the sections of your paper each as an independent document and later you can put them together in the order you may want to. This is the power of LaTeX. Of course, you have learn a bit about LaTeX to see its power. You cannot to nothing like that with the common editors. And you do not need to be deep LaTeX prof to reach this point. Like me, I am a common LaTeX user....
Dear Justus Schwabedal.
Thank you so Much for your reply, YES I use Latex With WinEdt editor, it's excellent for mathematics forms.
But when you use Ms.W we many difficulties?
for arrangement of equations? and in the level of citations?
I am sorry if a make a comparison to the real life of the Holder's inequality applied to this LaTeX question. With p,q running from 1 upwards
where p is your liberty and q is the grade of friendship of OS towards its users. It is usually said that Win has a very high grade of friendship
and U*xes very low grade near 1. Let's say that if Holder's inequality is satisfied then we have a good output. In this context 1/p, 1/q is the
precision of your work corresponding to the OS you are using always matching the corresponding the above said coefficient of friendship. Theorem: when working under U*xes we are almost sure of the output!
I entirely agree with Justus Schwabedal and Tarcisio Praciano-Pereira. LaTeX provides the ideal vehicle in preparing an article for a journal, especially in cases where an article contains mathematics and requires various diagrams and graphics.
Rendering mathematics in LaTeX is one of the most powerful and satisfying features of LaTeX. This is also the most straighforward aspects of LaTeX. There are two excellent sources to consider in learning about this:
Herbert Voss, Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX:
http://www.amazon.ca/Typesetting-Mathematics-LaTeX-Herbert-Voss/dp/1906860173
and
George Gratzer, Math Into LaTeX
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=6883
Apart from the importance of rendering mathematics in a precise manner, there is the less well-known power of the package to consider. For example, if you want to include a penrose tiling in an article, you can use the method shown in the attached file. For more about this, see
http://www.amazon.ca/PSTricks-Graphics-PostScript-TeX-LaTeX/dp/1906860130
There is no question that LaTeX wins, when it comes to preparing an article for submission to a journal, especially if an article contains mathematics, graphics and tables. So far, nobody has mentioned TeXnicCenter, a downloadable editor that is far superior in comparison with commercial editors:
http://www.texniccenter.org/
Herbert Voss's book on typesetting mathematics with LaTeX has already been mentioned as an excellent resource. What has not been mention so far is
Herbert Voss, PSTricks. Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX, (UIT Cambridge, 2011. 928 pp. Paperback, US$64.99. ISBN 9781906860134). :
http://www.tug.org/books/reviews/tb105reviews-voss.html
One of the outstanding features of this book is its faithful provision of LaTeX used to produce the graphics in the book.
There are also many ways to prepare table using LaTeX. For excellent book on how to get started, see
Herbert Voss, Typesetting Tables with LaTeX, by Herbert Voß (UIT Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-906860-25-7, 2011, 240pp).
http://www.tug.org/books/reviews/voss-tables.html
Hi, Raheam,
This reply is a bit delayed but hopefully you'll still find it useful.
Have you tried Authorea (https://www.authorea.com)? It's an online collaborative word processor for LaTeX.
I second the other answers in recommending LaTeX as the best solution for writing math or other science papers. And Authorea is a better way to write LaTeX: it has a lot of time-saving tools like reference import, collaborative writing, and automatically formatting your paper for the journal when you export it.
Authorea is developed by a team of former postdocs and researchers (including me) because we want a more efficient way to write and share our research.
Please do sign up (https://www.authorea.com/signup) -- it costs nothing. We'd love your feedback!
Try www.typeset.io
Its a writing and collaboration software, where you can format your document to any journal guidelines in seconds.
You can download your doc in any format - LaTeX, Ms Word, PDF etc.
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