![]() (Or you could use a gorilla such as MS Word or any other word processor, as long as you save your files as plain text, but that would be overkill.) There are document processors that act as a LaTeX frontend and that could be used more or less like “LaTeX graphical word processors”, such as LyX or GNU TeXmacs. In Windows, Notepad would be adequate, and any barebones text editor would suffice in any platform. You can write LaTeX in any text editor, because the processor requires a plain text file as input. An additional advantage of LaTeX -though I have not explored that fully- is that it is cross-platform LaTeX systems are available for almost any computer system imaginable, since LaTeX is Free Software. It is also batch-processed: you write text with some markup code in an editor, then you feed the text to a LaTeX processor, which in turn produces readable output (my system produces camera-ready PDF files). ![]() This advantage is achieved by separating presentation from content once you got your presentation parameters sorted out, all you have to do is write text. This system is easy, powerful and beautiful, allowing me to prepare professional-looking documents with a minimum of effort, way less than with a regular word processor. ![]() When I’m at the computer, a great deal of my writing activity happens not precisely in a word processor (such as MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer), but on a text editor, preparing source code for a document typesetting and preparation system known as LaTeX ( Wikipedia entry).
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