Vim, LaTeX and High School
kramerapps.com
Vim, LaTeX and High School
1–10 of 13 posts
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#2This guy is in high school? Amazing!
Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#3I did the same in high school, and now at uni it is paying off, my work looks great and is at least as easy to write as in a modern word processor except for good spelling and grammar checking. I haven't found a great solution for that yet.
Be sure to keep your tables looking good, look for some resources on it, it's amazing how shoddy even the default tables in LaTeX look, never mind the Excel spreadsheet look everyone seems to go for.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#4This guy is in high school? Amazing! Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.
I can't speak for everyone, but it is most likely the former. The handful of maths teachers I know absolutely loathe word-processed assignments since the majority of students don't bother using proper mathematical notation when they type things up (let alone use a proper type-setting program like LaTeX), so you end up with a bunch of students handing in stuff like:
∫e^x dx = e^x + c
Unfortunately, this sometimes results in teachers abandoning word processing altogether and making pen and paper mandatory.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#5Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email?
microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#6Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email? microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.
On the other hand, LaTeX should almost be a required skill for developers and dev managers. If you use it rather than M$Office, your development docs can be source controlled, easily diffed, and otherwise gain all the benefits of code! Design docs, data flow diagrams, architecture layouts, data models, &c., &c. can all be done in LaTeX will look great.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#7This guy is in high school? Amazing! Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.
I can't speak for everyone, but it is most likely the former. The handful of maths teachers I know absolutely loathe word-processed assignments since the majority of students don't bother using proper mathematical notation when they type things up (let alone use a proper type-setting program like LaTeX), so you end up with a bunch of students handing in stuff like: ∫e^x dx = e^x + c Unfortunately, this sometimes resu…
Our class has a digital whiteboard (via projection) in the front of the class. Our teacher uses LaTeX to typeset his lessons, displayed on the board.
But yeah, on the projects, the kids are allowed to use pencil and paper to do the things that cannot normally be typed up.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#8I did the same in high school, and now at uni it is paying off, my work looks great and is at least as easy to write as in a modern word processor except for good spelling and grammar checking. I haven't found a great solution for that yet. Be sure to keep your tables looking good, look for some resources on it, it's amazing how shoddy even the default tables in LaTeX look, never mind the Excel spreadsheet look every…
I've been using TeXstudio as a LaTeX editor - it's a fork of TeXmaker with more features (notably a user-editable spelling dictionary). The UI is Qt, and it's available cross-platform.
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#9Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email? microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.
Of course, if the documents don't need to be edited by their recipients, PDF is even more of a de facto standard than .doc{,x}
Re: Vim, LaTeX and High School
#10Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email? microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.
On the other hand, LaTeX should almost be a required skill for developers and dev managers. If you use it rather than M$Office, your development docs can be source controlled, easily diffed, and otherwise gain all the benefits of code! Design docs, data flow diagrams, architecture layouts, data models, &c., &c. can all be done in LaTeX will look great.
I disagree, I've been working on business-area applications for 5 years now and not once have I said to myself, "Man I wish I had some Latex knowledge to work on this document!".
It's just non-existant unless you actually need the math notations and whatnot.