What is aquamacs full#
Of course Word + MathType is a full WYSIWYG environment. I don’t like this.Ĭopying equations (or part of them) with Latex is simple and fast. If you want to copy and paste, you have to double-click on the equation to open it in MathType, copy the equation in MathType, create another equation in Word (and this opens it in MathType), paste the old equation in the new one. This bug usually does not apply if you drag n drop, but I’m afraid this is not always true. It is a command from MathType menu in Word, easy to call, but slow to complete, if you have many equations. If you just select an equation within Word and copy or cut and paste it, Word will say it’s not able to save on “current volume”. With MathType and Word you cannot copy equations. If you need more symbols, while amslatex (which comes with standard latex distributions) provides them, MathType does not (well, you have to find a font that uses them, change the font and everything).
This is not a problem, in this case: in this document we are using only basical symbols. Moreover it’s terribly simple to use, while Word’s referencing facilities are less powerful and more complicated to use. This way you can also reference theorems and sections. If you use Emacs(Auctex) facilities to create sections, subsections and such, the editor encourages you to label them. With Emacs you can say you want to put the reference of an equation and it will present a list of all equation (you can read the label and the equation itself) from which you chose which equation to reference. This is pretty simple: unfortunately if you have a long Word document, you have to manually find the equation you want to reference, and this is not quick. You can create a numbered equation, then say you want a reference to an equation and double click the equation number. Using references with MathType and Word is not difficult. In fact I have never seen Emacs crashing in my whole life. On the other side Latex and Emacs never crashed. I find overly annoyinh to redo the same job twice. Unfortunately crashes anger me a lot, and I tend not to be able to continue working. The first thing you do is close Word and reopen it. This is not usually a problem: the rest of the document is not touched (and Word itself does not hang) and you lose only the last minutes of work. MathType tends to crash in unexpected ways. The main problem I found with Word + MathType were errors.
We are now comparing Latex and Word on Word’s own field: small simple documents. We already know that Latex is more powerfull than word. While Word is a wordprocessor meant to write and quickly format texts (this is not perfecly true, since Word includes some functions that are part of a publishing software), Latex is a full environment meant to produce documents ready to be published. So this is not a test intended to prove that latex is more powerfull. MathType was able to handle the equations: for example some equations used in computer science are really hard to express with MathType.
What is aquamacs install#
Other Emacs installations already include it (and if you use GNU/Linux or FreeBSD it should be easy to install the package).
This is the case with Aquamacs, which comes with Auctex bundled. Please notice than when I speak about Emacs, I assume Auctex is configured and working. If you are a novice, you may want to try TextMate or BBEdit instead, or maybe TexShop (search google for them ☺).
Aquamacs is itself almost configured: of course to use its extended capabilities you should already know Emacs. You can read my last two posts about Aquamacs w/th Latex and Texniscope. Their subject and structure was similar, so I decided to compare Latex + Emacs and Word + MathType.Įmacs was Aquamacs, standard version, configured to work with Texniscope. Recently I had to write two simple scientific documents.
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