509Chapter 20Working with Words and Images .Scientific notation (Photoshop web design)
509Chapter 20Working with Words and Images .Scientific notation is supported. With geqn, you can create complex equations. LaTeX and TeX are suited for technical notation, and some math publicationsrequire LaTeX. .Editing can be faster because traditional Linux documents are created with atext editor. You usually get better performance out of a text editor than a wordprocessor. Simple page layouts work well with Linux documentation tools. For example, a tech- nical book with a few flow charts and images can be easily produced and maintainedusing Groff or TeX documentation tools. Letters and memos are also easy to do withthese tools. And, of course, Linux man pages are created with text-based tools. Additionally, Linux likes PostScript. Although people think of PostScript as a printinglanguage, it is really more of a programming language (you could write PostScriptcode directly). Most Linux document-processing software includes print drivers forPostScript. Some documents on the Web are distributed in PostScript (.ps). The drawback to the traditional Linux document tools is that they are not intuitive. Although there are some easier front ends to LaTeX (see the description of LyXlater in this chapter), if you are creating documents in a text editor, you need tolearn what macros to type into your documents and which formatting and printcommands to use. For many years, the UNIX system documentation distributed by AT&T was created introff/nroff formats, which predate Groff. The documents used separate macro pack- ages for man pages and guide material. Using a source code control system (SCCS), thousands of pages of documentation were ported to different UNIX systems. Creating Documents in Groff or LaTeXYou can use any text editor to create documents for both Linux s Groff (troff/nroff) and LaTeX (TeX) styles of publishing. Most Linux distributions come with severaltext editors. You always have the option to download others from the Internet. (Seethe Choosing a Text Editor sidebar for more information.) Here are the general steps for creating documents in Groff or LaTeX: 1.Create a document with any text editor. The document will contain text andmarkup. 2.Format the document using a formatting command that matches the style ofthe document that you created (for example, with groffor latex). Duringthis step, you may need to indicate that the document contains special con- tent, such as equations (eqncommand), tables (tblcommand), or line draw- ings (piccommand). Note28_
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