My favorite apps
I've been learning LaTeX lately for work, and I decided to let this week's physics write-up assignment be a further learning experience for me. I wrote up the whole thing in LaTeX, and I must say it looks quite fine. The math is especially elegant.
Anyway, several guys in my physics group have been asking about what programs I use to produce nice documents and images, and just do cool stuff in general. Since I've been sending out this list a good bit, I decided I'd post it and share the love. These are the applications that I have installed on my computer and use with some frequency (in no particular order).
LaTeX
- First http://www.miktex.org/ for the engine,
- then http://sourceforge.net/projects
/texniccenter/ for the user interface.
FirefoxFileZillaGoogle Earth
OpenOffice
- http://www.openoffice.org/ (free Office software, as good and better than Microsoft's)
- http://cutepdf.com/products
/cutepdf/Writer.asp (create PDFs from any Windows program that can print) - Note there are two downloads involved here: first the converter, then CutePDF itself.
posted by Jeffrey J. Stables at 8:41 PM
3 Comments:
Google Earth...I could play with that forever.
who friggin cares what you use
ah LaTex, oh joy. You must be using Emacs! vi is cruel, emacs is kewl. Back in my college days I used LaTeX a bit. Spent one summer processing a book for a prof even. I didn't know Chem folks used it, thought it was only us Math geeks.
DK...some guy that ran across this blog
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