16 Nov
2002
16 Nov
'02
12:49 a.m.
Hi!
I recently submitted my proj synopsis, over which the examiner was not at
all impressed (spacing,indentation,et al...)
We had done the thing in Microsoft Word format ( I used Star Office while
my colleagues Microsoft Office )
I researched a little and found out that groff and Latex are great doc
formatting (typesetting ?) tools. Also I discovered that mostly Latex is
preferred over groff. Now I've learnt Latex a little. However the pdf file
I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very crappy in acrobat
reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal?
Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
Most probably we would print the project on a Windows machine ( i guess
very few DTP vendors have Linux as of yet :( ). One of my friends told me
that pdf files do not print quite well as compared with Microsoft Word
files. Is this correct? I'm in a fix. I'm beginning to like Latex. But at
the same time I would not like to face problems with the printing and
stuff.
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in Latex ? Is there any
other good doc formatting system? Please guide
Thx
Nikhil
16 Nov
16 Nov
1:50 a.m.
Hi there,
I myself need to get hold of somthing from which i can make my resume or a
project report ( BE :-p ) . and need to get hold of some begineers guide to
text formatting.
However i found this link. it seems to have plenty of tips but i have hardly
gone throught them.
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/makingWWWdocs.html
regards
rahul
On Friday 13 December 2002 22:37, you wrote:
****************************************
* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
****************************************
Hi!
I recently submitted my proj synopsis, over which the examiner was not at
all impressed (spacing,indentation,et al...)
[snip]
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in
Latex ? Is there any
other good doc formatting system? Please guide
Thx
Nikhil
5:24 a.m.
On Dec 15, 2002 at 01:48, Rahul Saxena wrote:
I myself need to get hold of somthing from which i can
make my resume or a
project report ( BE :-p ) . and need to get hold of some begineers guide to
text formatting.
Search Google for lshort.pdf.
--
Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> I need a job!
Perl, Apache, Linux, C. http://www-scf.usc.edu/~phanse/resume.pdf
The server threw an exception.
8:06 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Rahul Saxena wrote:
I myself need to get hold of somthing from which i can
make my resume or a
project report ( BE :-p ) . and need to get hold of some begineers guide to
text formatting.
Hi!
found this :
http://www.tug.org.in
I guess this is a more proper place to discuss Tex
Nikhil
2:38 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
formatting (typesetting ?) tools. Also I discovered
that mostly Latex is
preferred over groff. Now I've learnt Latex a little. However the pdf file
I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very crappy in acrobat
reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal?
Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
use pdflatex instead of latex.
It will convert it to pdf file, which will be of much better quality.
And printouts from Adobe Acrobat are as good as that from MS Word.
hth
Hemang Ajmera
3:39 a.m.
Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in
Latex ? Is there
any other good doc formatting system? Please guide
http://pi.wien.rhno.columbia.edu/Computers/
That's my computer. I have a lot of stuff there about Computer Science
in general. There are also files also devoted to TeX and LaTeX. It
might help you.
--
Bhargav Bhatt.
8:14 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:37:11PM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
I researched a little and found out that groff and
Latex are great doc
formatting (typesetting ?) tools. Also I discovered that mostly Latex is
preferred over groff. Now I've learnt Latex a little. However the pdf file
I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very crappy in acrobat
reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal?
Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
This is normal I suppose. But if you create pdf using "pdflatex" then
it will be ok.
--
Pankaj Jangid
Education Technology Unit, NCST
9:21 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:37:11PM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
****************************************
* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
****************************************
Admin: Can we put a newline after the header? It sticks right on top
of the original message currently.
We had done the thing in Microsoft Word format ( I
used Star Office while
my colleagues Microsoft Office )
If you want to allege that either of these tools are bad at document
creation, then I don't agree with you. MS Word has a really really
wonderful document model just as any self-respecting word processor
should have, and one can indeed make good reports in it.
I researched a little and found out that groff and
Latex are great doc
formatting (typesetting ?) tools.
Go for LaTeX ... look for a file called "lshort2e" ... the short
introduction to LaTeX edition 2.
If you really feel adventurous, try Docbook-XML :-) Then you can
publish your documents in any format - LaTeX, ps, PDF, HTML, RTF,
text, etc.
I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks
very crappy in acrobat
reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite well. Is this normal?
Use pdflatex.
Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
All sane people publish their reports, papers, articles etc using
LaTeX or related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-)
Most probably we would print the project on a Windows
machine ( i guess
very few DTP vendors have Linux as of yet :( ). One of my friends told me
that pdf files do not print quite well as compared with Microsoft Word
Simply not true. PDF and ps files can print anywhere ... that's what
they are meant for! In fact, the ".prn" file created for most printers
is in fact PostScript, and can be renamed to ".ps"
Sameer.
--
MTech Student,
Reconfigurable Computing Lab,
KReSIT, IIT-Bombay.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in
the world that just don't add up.
17 Nov
17 Nov
3:58 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
yep, I guess Word or for that matter any WYSIWYG tool is great for
casual/short editing needs. However for real stuff like
books/thesis/report you have to resort to Latex like tools
We had done
the thing in Microsoft Word format ( I used Star Office while
my colleagues Microsoft Office )
If you want to allege that either of these tools are bad at document
creation, then I don't agree with you. MS Word has a really really
wonderful document model just as any self-respecting word processor
should have, and one can indeed make good reports in it. If you really feel adventurous, try Docbook-XML :-)
Then you can
publish your documents in any format - LaTeX, ps, PDF, HTML, RTF,
text, etc.
ummm... XML
I have vague idea that it is some kinda markup language having
more features than HTML. I have no idea what is Docbook
Can you please enlighten me ?
All sane people publish their reports, papers,
articles etc using
LaTeX or related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-)
Thank God :)
Nikhil
3:36 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:01:57AM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Why God? Thank Donald Knuth (for TeX) and Leslie Lamport (for LaTeX) instead!
Sameer.
--
MTech Student,
Reconfigurable Computing Lab,
KReSIT, IIT-Bombay.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
ummm... XML
I have vague idea that it is some kinda markup language having
more features than HTML. I have no idea what is Docbook
Can you please enlighten me ?
http://www.docbook.org/
All sane
people publish their reports, papers, articles etc using
LaTeX or related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-)
Thank God :) 
4:16 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:28:57PM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
****************************************
* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
****************************************
Why God? Thank Donald Knuth (for TeX) and Leslie Lamport (for LaTeX) instead!
Yeah, Thank Gods!
;-)
--
jaju
LaTeX or
related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-)
Thank God :) 
11:55 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Admin: Can we put a newline after the header? It
sticks right on top
of the original message currently.
Done... HTH...
With regards,
--
--Dinesh Shah :-)
Shah Micro System
Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com
Mobile: (+91) 98213-11906
Res: (+91-22) 56919423
Tel: (+91-22) 26747120
16 Nov
16 Nov
9:45 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:37:11 +0530 (IST)
Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in
Latex ? Is
there any other good doc formatting system? Please guide
Many folks sure do that. I used to think of MS Word as the
greatest piece of software till I had to write my Dad's 200+ page
thesis. Even with styles, maintaining consistency was a pain. I
bought a fat book on MS Office 2000 to figure out how to do the
heavy-duty stuff but I couldn't even generate a ToC, which only
requires a \tableofcontents in LaTeX!
I prefer output in PDF format since it's ready to display/print,
there are nice readers available for PDF and PDF docs can be sent
to Windows users too, since they more often than not have Acrobat
installed.
Googlize "Essential LaTeX++" and "lshort.pdf" to get started.
--
Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST)
http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir
tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in
We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed
12:35 p.m.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Friday 13 Dec 2002 10:37 pm, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in
Latex ? Is there any
other good doc formatting system? Please guide
Here, at IIT ( and probably other places like TIFR, IISc ), LaTex is the most
commonly used means of writing articles/reports/journal papers, and
even presentations!
It's very mature. Much more than anything else.
And yes, you can use tools like Kile, lyx to help you.
- --
jaju
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE9/CftMGzeh8bs20QRAnzWAJ9gzHOdrHx0QwjK3QAPUQxMvpW6bgCeNeIk
ZW48QP73FVpk7BYPiw3PIHs=
=qHVI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
24 Dec
24 Dec
1:42 p.m.
Nikhil Joshi <nikhil_joshi(a)gmx.net> writes:
preferred over groff. Now I've learnt Latex a
little. However the
pdf file I create (with the help of dvips and ps2pdf) looks very
crappy in acrobat reader. Ghostview however displays the thing quite
well. Is this normal? Has anyone tried Latex and stuff ?
The problem is with the fonts. The default fonts on Unix are not very
well supported by Adobe. But you can use a font package like
helvetica (for serif fonts) by \usepackage{helvet} and your document
will look equally fantastic in both gv and Acrobat Reader. There are
other fontpackages too.
Most probably we would print the project on a Windows
machine ( i
guess very few DTP vendors have Linux as of yet :( ). One of my
friends told me that pdf files do not print quite well as compared
with Microsoft Word files. Is this correct? I'm in a fix. I'm
beginning to like Latex. But at the same time I would not like to
face problems with the printing and stuff.
M$ Word is one totally unreliable package when it comes to
typesetting. I have had the misfortune of using it extensively for
typing out a number of thesis & projects. PostScript is a system
developed especially for printing and final output. And it works
exceeding well.
Has anyone made his/her synopsis/report/article in
Latex ? Is there
any other good doc formatting system? Please guide
LaTeX is the best of the free world - Acrobat is eXcellent but
eXpensive. But there are a number of "user friendly" frontends on
both Unix and win32 platforms which sit on top of LaTeX. LaTeX has a
steeper learning curve but it is very fast when you are done with the
basics.
quasi
7589
days inactive
7627
days old
14 comments
11 participants
participants (11)
-
Bhargav Bhatt -
Dinesh Shah -
Hemang C. Ajmera -
Nikhil Joshi -
Pankaj Jangid -
q u a s i -
Rahul Saxena -
Ravindra Jaju -
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe -
Satya -
Tahir Hashmi