LaTeX and Mac OS X

From the octave mailing list

Hi. I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but here is a good place to check up on (La)TeX on the Mac.

Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
& FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Post: <mailto:MacOSX-TeX@email.esm.psu.edu>

Cheers.
---John.

On Feb 3, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

LaTeX – A document preparation system

My question: If I had LaTex installed on my iMac with OS 10.2.8 would it

take the place of MSWord X for producing my final document for submission to

scientific journal. Or on my next Mac when Tiger comes out, LaTeX can take

the place of MSWord and I won't need it at all?

Using Octave/Gnuplot/AquaTerm I can save as pdf or eps. Current MS Word does

not fully support PDFs and creates a bitmap, therefore print quality is not

adequate. If I insert the EPS into MS Word, I can print with good quality

but cannot see the eps on the screen because I don't have/don't know how to

make an EPS file with Tiff or PICT preview.

So is LaTex the solution to my problem? I could also buy iWorks which

supports PDF and therefore won't rasterize (make a bit map) of my PDF files

that were created with AquaTerm.

Henry

on 2/3/05 7:11 AM, Quentin Spencer at qspencer@ieee.org wrote:

Rodrigo Santos wrote:

I would like to copy a figure obtained using plot to an .eps format so I

can include it on latex file.

The easiest way to do this is using the "print" command in the

octave-forge package (http://octave.sf.net). It is very similar to the

print function in Matlab. Without this function, you can do something

like this:

gset term postscript

gset output filename.eps

replot

There are additional options for the first command that are in the

gnuplot documentation.

Adding files to a LaTeX distribution
mktexlsr

Posted: Tue - February 8, 2005 at 08:13 AM | |