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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Hmmm. I don't know. Kile might too quite tied in to KDE to allow you to use that feature so. Install kwrite and see if you get spell checking through that. Install kate too. It might be that there's something in the kate part which is needed for the spell-checking.

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Quote Originally Posted by Steveire View Post
    Hmmm. I don't know. Kile might too quite tied in to KDE to allow you to use that feature so. Install kwrite and see if you get spell checking through that. Install kate too. It might be that there's something in the kate part which is needed for the spell-checking.
    Thanks for your help... I found another way to check spelling directly from Kile... I installed ispell - and with ispell Kile works... But still - Kile should be ok with Gnome...

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    I use ViM 7.0 with latex-suite. It has a lot of great options for producing LaTeX code quickly.
    For plotting, I use Matlab together with LaPrint, a nice little program to convert your matlab figure to eps and generate a .tex-file with ticks, legends and captions(using psfrags). For diagrams etc I use mainly xfig, with a script called figtex2tex, that again uses psfrags to translate all the text and numbers to tex-code.
    Very nice for getting a consistent look on your entire paper(which, IMO, is really important).

    For presentations, I use the beamer-package with LaTeX.

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    I also use bazaar (bzr) to do my version control and keep track of changes. Really helpful and easy to use to create a backup on my webserver.

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Use the TeXmacs frontend to Maxima and gnuplot.

    TeXmacs + Maxima:
    http://arxiv.org/html/cs.SC/0504039

    TeXmacs + gnuplot:
    (See section 4. Graph Gallery)
    http://www.texmacs.org/tmdoc/examples/casdoc.en.html

    However I don't think TeXmacs is UTF-8 enabled.

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Solution for Aspell and Kile working on GNOME :
    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...61&postcount=5

    Writing LaTeX equations in an OpenOffice document (writer and impress):
    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=334218
    Last edited by Toufik; January 31st, 2007 at 12:06 PM.

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    Does LaTeX matter for typeset manuscripts?

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Smith View Post

    So, I began writting manuscripts in Word. There is one HUGE advantage of Word to LaTex: you can share the document with the rest of the world. You can argue that Word stinks, but that advantage is a huge advantage that, in my experience, and has outweighed every advantage LaTex has to offer. Try sharing a LaTex file with a random person, and ask them to add their comments in the text (external review and revision is a part of the scientific process). You'll see what I'm talking about.
    When you make pdf's out of latex you can share them with anyone and they look the same in all computers unlike MS office documents. And at least the journals I am publishing in anyway need a pdf for the reviewing process...

    I recently started writing my papers in latex because I got tired trying to get proper format with MS office or Ooffice. I use Matlab for creating my figures and I get great output with eps files. Have you tried to add eps file to MS word document

    Unfortenately I publish in Agricultural engineering and veterinary science journals and not all of the them accept Latex. It is possible to use latex2rtf to produce files for such journals, but I find it doesn't do a very good job in converting equations.

    For me also the only good thing in MS office compared to latex is the feature for tracking changes and making comments. I also like to use the comments feature in Adobe acrobat pro so I can comment pdf's without printing 'em. Does anyone know a free software (with a gui) that can add comments to pdfs or ps files? That would be really great!

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    Quote Originally Posted by ahmatti View Post
    . Does anyone know a free software (with a gui) that can add comments to pdfs or ps files? That would be really great!
    I'm quoting my own post here, but I just discovered flpsed http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html. You can add comments to pdfs with, excatly what I need. I compiled v. 0.39 from source and it works perfectly

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    Re: writing scientific/mathematic papers

    I think those writing for Physics or Math journals underestimate the difficulties of trying to use Latex in other fields. I write for medicine journals and almost all of them will only accept .doc or .rtf files. Also, in order to allow my co-authors to review and edit my manuscripts, I have to stick to word documents. Even attempts to switch to openoffice are frustrated by minor incompatibilities with word (not ooffice's problem, I know).
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