Inspired on the basis of this particular article...
Proposed list of 60 things journal publishers do
Saw mentions to Latex for publishing, is nice, open source, a bit more convenient as mentioned at site then creating documents then word for higher end scientific publications...granted my personal experience were a couple decades no doubt out of date and at the mere undergraduate level in so far as in slaving over publishable formulation, I spent more time then writing formulas (some several hours) relative to the same time that could have been spent writing them out (likely an hour at best).
Tried latex briefly, I liked it since, there were short hand type methods (e.g. "/Theta" for the Greek letter theta) for writing formulation, sparing a writer some headache in typing formula.
http://www.latex-project.org/
Picked up some Cambridge Super string publication from then Greene and company published entirely in LaTex, nice looking book in any event.
I would think though the most optimal...if it could ever developed on the open source wish list were a translator that could turn human handwriting into unicode which could then code this for LaTex. It would probably optimize time spent writing formulation, since a writer would only have to literally write the symbol and neither search for local linguistic translated equivalents with additional symbol tags to be added, or have to scroll through a series of slow and encumbering windows to hunt and peck a given symbol. Sort of like other commercial software that I've seen floating around these days but able to understand natural written language.
Proposed list of 60 things journal publishers do
Saw mentions to Latex for publishing, is nice, open source, a bit more convenient as mentioned at site then creating documents then word for higher end scientific publications...granted my personal experience were a couple decades no doubt out of date and at the mere undergraduate level in so far as in slaving over publishable formulation, I spent more time then writing formulas (some several hours) relative to the same time that could have been spent writing them out (likely an hour at best).
Tried latex briefly, I liked it since, there were short hand type methods (e.g. "/Theta" for the Greek letter theta) for writing formulation, sparing a writer some headache in typing formula.
http://www.latex-project.org/
Picked up some Cambridge Super string publication from then Greene and company published entirely in LaTex, nice looking book in any event.
I would think though the most optimal...if it could ever developed on the open source wish list were a translator that could turn human handwriting into unicode which could then code this for LaTex. It would probably optimize time spent writing formulation, since a writer would only have to literally write the symbol and neither search for local linguistic translated equivalents with additional symbol tags to be added, or have to scroll through a series of slow and encumbering windows to hunt and peck a given symbol. Sort of like other commercial software that I've seen floating around these days but able to understand natural written language.
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