RE: Follow-up to Linux experimentation thread

["Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>]

TJ wrote: "... I've vowed that I will switch to Linux
completely (at home anyway) as soon as I believe that
I can meet all my computing needs with it.

So far, it looks like there's software for every
purpose--except desktop publishing. anybody hear of
anything good yet?"
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TeX and LaTeX (http://www.tug.org/) are included in Linux. 

TeX is far more powerful than most people realize. (LaTeX is essentially
a collection of macros for TeX.) It is arguably the best computer
typsetting software available. It is the tool of choice for scientific
papers that include mathematical equations and other "non-stardard"
items.

Since TeX and LaTeX do not use a GUI, many people don't take the time to
learn them. This is unfortunate because they are not that hard to use.
However, there is a graphical "word processor" program for TeX/LaTeX
called "LyX" (http://www.lyx.org/) that is available. I haven't tried it
yet.

HTH

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.

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