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debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2868

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2868

Today's Topics: 

  Re: [OT] LaTeX                        [ "Michael Marsh"  ]
  Re: Could you recommend file manager  [ Mark Grieveson  ]
  ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Displ  [ Jonathan Kaye  ]
  Re: [OT] LaTeX                        [ "Benjamin M. A'Lee" 
  [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux   [ Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> ]



Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:15:22 +0000


From: "Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: [OT] LaTeX

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On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've
> no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite
> package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages
> are both missing), and I have no clue where to start to learn LaTeX.
>
> Any point in the right direction would really help!
>
> Also, for the Debian related question; What package would people out
> there recommend for compiling and viewing LaTeX?

You didn't say which release you're using, so if "texlive" is
available, install that.  If not, install "tetex".  texlive is a
meta-package, and suggests texlive-doc-en, which contains
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/lshort-english/lshort.pdf


-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarshhttp://mamarsh.blogspot.comhttp://36pints.blogspot.com

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:22:38 -0500
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [OT] LaTeX
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:

> Hello DU
> 
> I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've
> no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite
> package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages
> are both missing), and I have no clue where to start to learn LaTeX.
> 
> Any point in the right direction would really help!
> 
> Also, for the Debian related question; What package would people out
> there recommend for compiling and viewing LaTeX?
> 


LaTex is a superset of Tex and as such is installed in the TexLive
packages.  You'll want the texdoc and texdoctk programs.  Texdoctk is
the easiest to use.  It gives you a GUI-based menu of all the
documentation.  Click on a piece of documentation and it starts up the
correct viewer for it (i.e. depending on if the file is pdf, dvi, ps,
text, html, whatever).  

The first document to read would be the "not so short introduction to
latex".  Basically, spend a day reading all the docs that are general
(not esoteric to a use you don't need).  Then try to write something.

As for "compiling and viewing LaTex", I write it in vim, compile it
with latex on the command line and view it in xdvi, gv, kpdf, lynx, or
konqueror (depending on the format I've made).  I get help in vim with:
:help latex


As an example LaTex document, here's my letterhead template:


\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
%preamble here
\begin{document}
% no page number on this first page
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{flushleft}
Douglas A. Tutty\\
160 McQuay St, RR. 3\\
Yarker, ON K0K 3N0\\
Ph: (613) 358--5861\\
Email:  dtutty@porchlight.ca\\
\end{flushleft}

\noindent \today

\bigskip

\noindent Dear: 

\bigskip


\begin{flushleft}
Yours truly,

\vspace{2cm}

Douglas A. Tutty.
\end{flushleft}

\end{document}


---

As an alternative or suppliment, you could install lyx.  Its a qt-based
wysiwyg editor that produces tex and can export latex.  It has gread
documentation that gives you a head-start on tex concepts.  I used it
for about 2 days before I went to vim and straight latex.

Doug.


Do you need help?X

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:00:48 +0100 (CET)
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: wget initialization syntax errors
Message-ID: <slrnfkjai0.m0h.keeling@heretic.nucleus.com>

Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>:

>  I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: 
> 
>    --mirror


That's not how my .wgetrc looks.  I have (eg.):

   passive_ftp = on

You need to man wget and learn what rc file option does what you
want, if wget can be used that way.  "--mirror" is for the command
line: 

    --mirror

        Turn on options suitable for mirroring.  This option turns
        on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion
        depth and keeps FTP directory listings.  It is currently
        equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.

Also see if you can learn anything useful from /usr/share/doc/wget


-- 
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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:13:52 -0500
From: Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and
 GNOME?
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:51:20 +0000 (UTC)
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:


> > I have used Linux for 8 years.
> > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM).
> > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM
> > based on KDE or GNOME I still use command line. I will prefer GUI
> > FM so my life can be a little easier. I use sarge and etch.
> >   
> You sound like me to an extent.  I run lots of command line under
> fvwm2.  However I do have Gnome libraries installed as there are a
> number of Gnome applications that I use, thus if I need a file manager
> I use Nautilus.


There's clex, vfu, and vifm, for command line.  Clex is my favourite of
these three.  It's simple, and does what I need.  

A graphical file manager that's good, and not reliant upon gnome or kde
libraries, is emelfm.

Mark



Date:  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:30:58 +0100
From:  Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?
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Hi all,
ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst=E2=84=A2 7.11 Proprietar=
y Linux x86
Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The previo=
us
driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going backwards? Is
7.11 really the LATEST driver?
TIA,
Jonathan
--=20
Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:31:57 +0000
From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [OT] LaTeX
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:

> Hello DU
>=20
> I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've
> no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite
> package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages
> are both missing), and I have no clue where to start to learn LaTeX.
>=20
> Any point in the right direction would really help!
>=20
> Also, for the Debian related question; What package would people out
> there recommend for compiling and viewing LaTeX?


The best tutorial is probably the Not-So-Short Introduction to LaTeX2e:

www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

As for Debian packages, you'll want some subset of the texlive-* packages. =
Try
just the 'texlive' package for starters, which pulls in some of the LaTeX
stuff.

--=20
Benjamin A'Lee :: benjamin.alee@subvert.org.uk
Subvert Technologies :: http://subvert.org.uk/

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Date:  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:44:07 +0100
From:  Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?
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Jonathan Kaye wrote:


> Hi all,
> ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst=E2=84=A2 7.11 Propriet=

ary Linux

> x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The
> previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going
> backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver?
> TIA,
> Jonathan

To answer my own question, when I started to build the debs from the
installer, the version came out as 8.433-1. To be consistent, ATI should
have called it 8.43.3-1 but at least not it appears to be a later version
than 8.42.3-1.
--=20
Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

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