[Tugindia] LaTeX in schools

Sridhar M.A. mas at uomphysics.net
Tue Apr 8 22:06:39 CEST 2003


On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:25:27AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
   > "Sridhar M.A." <mas at uomphysics.net> writes:
   > 
   > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:51:48AM +0530, Amitabh Trehan wrote:
   > 
   > >    > Woaaa! This is an important discussion. I am only too happy to
   > >    > report that computer novices in our M.Sc. courses at Mahatma
   > >    > Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya have taken to Linux
   > >    > and LaTeX (yes, hand creation usig GVim) like ducks to water,
   > >    > but I envisage a shortage of teachers to carry out the job
   > >    > meaningfully.
   > > 
   > > Nice to know that. Our students, not all but most, took a fancy to
   > > LaTeX. In fact, those with exposure to Word were more vocal in their
   > > support for LaTeX :-D They were won over by the quality, not by ads.
   > > 
   > > On the editor side, the camp was divided between vim and ktexmaker2.
   > 
   > In this case, choice is a nice thing.  Be sure that one available
   > choice is Emacs+AUCTeX+preview-latex: this is one combination that is
   > rather popular particularly where mathematical notation is concerned,
   > and Emacs is the editor of choice for many people turning to software
   > development.
   > 
I fully agree with that. I have about 20 machines all running debian
woody. I have installed vim, emacs, auctex and lots of similar stuff and
demoed things one day. After that it was their choice.

Regards,

-- 
Sridhar M.A.

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