Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/5/14 Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia at di.unipi.it>:
> Il giorno gio, 14/05/2009 alle 00.11 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs ha scritto:
>> Lack of Decent Latex Support?????!!!!!!!!
>>
>> I've switched to ubuntu because of it. I was sick of realising that
>> I'm missing this or that latex package. in ubuntu I did default
>> average (a little bit of extra math fonts) and everytime I'm offline I
>> manage to compile anything my collegues give me.
>>
>> About editors have you tried AucTeX with Speedbar and code
>> folding????? It rocks better than anything else.
>
> I know the power of emacs and use it for many things (btw you should
> also mention preview-latex when advocating it ;) and where did x-symbol
> end?) but when I compile documents it seems a pain to go to the next
> error and similar. I _know_ that I can learn it because I use it for
> coding, but it's not your tipical user interface. Kile is very good in
> covering the needs of ex-texnic-center users and has very comfortable
> facilities (e.g. the completion for user-defined commands and for
> bibliography).
>

User-defined commands - Tick;
RefTex - bibliography completion - Tick

preview-latex - Why do I need it when I have auto-refresh of Xdvi???? But ok =D

>>
>> Xdvi true is the current way for dvi workflow..... just wait for a
>> SyncTex and everyone will be off to Pdf.
>>
>
> Synctex changes the pagination of the document AFAIK, and apart from

Wrong =D PdfSync did. Synctex doesn't it's new in TexLive 2008 didn't
land in Debian yet.

Synctex is better and it's becoming standard on linux viewer is
Texmaker on Mac Os X - Skim and there is on for Windows but cant'
remmeber how it's called. All normal editors support synctex already.

> that, my post is about... what to do while we wait! I have NO doubts
> that both okular and evince will one day be perfect for texing. Evince
> is for pdfs right now. Just it still can't reliably print a pdf (since
> years). The patch is in gnome so it will hopefully be in karmic BTW.
>

How long have you waited for XP? And how long have you waited for Xp
to get good??? I think Ubuntu/Debian and Foss are much better on the
timescales =DDDDD


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With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич