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From: Peltio on 14 May 2010 19:57
magma said :

> The posted links do not seem to work (at least for me).

Neither for me.

> But one can easily find the 2 avi files on YouTube.com simply by
> typing "active documents" in the search field

Unfortunately Youtube is no longer working for me (it's about 5-6 weeks
to tell the truth). I get "An error occurred, please try again later"
whichever clip I try to watch. I had solved the problem by embedding
the code in a hand-make web page on my desktop, but after complaing
about the error via the site feedback, even that stopped working :-).
Reinstalling flash and java would make it work only for the first
video.

(I am not looking for a solution on this group, just stating why I
might comment on the interesting answers to my post only a few days
from now).

cheers,
Peltio


From: Bill Rowe on 15 May 2010 06:15
On 5/14/10 at 5:33 AM, Kevin.McCann(a)umbc.edu (Kevin J. McCann) wrote:

>Here we have a difference of opinion. LaTeX and all the other Tex's
>require that "code" be written, which is subsequently processed to
>generate the final output.

Yes, LaTeX is a markup language and does require some learning
before you can use it effectively. And since it can do a variety
of things, like Mathematica, there are a great many things to
learn. But also like Mathematica, you do not need to learn
everything in order to get things done.

>That said, I rely on the Stylesheet to determine the look and feel
>of the document, and, as I said in an earlier post, this is not at
>all intuitive. So, here is where I have to spend my time, but once
>the template (Stylesheet) is done,

You have effectively substituted one problem for another with
roughly the same degree of difficulty. That is instead of using
a LaTeX class, you are using a Stylesheet which performs
essentially the same purpose. And I would point out, there is
many more books/references available for LaTeX and how to use it
than there are for Mathematica Stylesheets.


From: Kevin J. McCann on 16 May 2010 05:56
Indeed, I have substituted one problem for another, but once the
Stylesheet is the way I want it, I am done with that, and from that
point on it is WYSIWYG (almost).

Kevin

Bill Rowe wrote:
> On 5/14/10 at 5:33 AM, Kevin.McCann(a)umbc.edu (Kevin J. McCann) wrote:
>
>> Here we have a difference of opinion. LaTeX and all the other Tex's
>> require that "code" be written, which is subsequently processed to
>> generate the final output.
>
> Yes, LaTeX is a markup language and does require some learning
> before you can use it effectively. And since it can do a variety
> of things, like Mathematica, there are a great many things to
> learn. But also like Mathematica, you do not need to learn
> everything in order to get things done.
>
>> That said, I rely on the Stylesheet to determine the look and feel
>> of the document, and, as I said in an earlier post, this is not at
>> all intuitive. So, here is where I have to spend my time, but once
>> the template (Stylesheet) is done,
>
> You have effectively substituted one problem for another with
> roughly the same degree of difficulty. That is instead of using
> a LaTeX class, you are using a Stylesheet which performs
> essentially the same purpose. And I would point out, there is
> many more books/references available for LaTeX and how to use it
> than there are for Mathematica Stylesheets.
>
>

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