Re: Syllabic consonants (was: Re: Beek)

IZ = Isidora Zamora

> What is LaTeX?
It's a typesetting system that is not What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get.
Writing documents in LaTeX resembles programming more than
word processing; in that sense it's somewhat like writing
HTML manually.  But it gives you very precise control over the
placement of everything on the page.  You can superimpose arbitrary
text on top of other text, rotate text, etc.  Among its many
virtues is the fact that you can put any diacritical mark on
any letter, and it even comes out positioned properly.  However, as
TeX predates Unicode, you do this with special sequences rather
than combining characters.  For instance, \^{C} gives you a C with
a caron so you can write "Cxu vi parolas Esperanton?" and have it come out
looking right.

LaTeX is designed for producing printed output rather than
electronic documents; but that happens to make it a nearly perfect
a match for PDF, which is probably the best way to distribute
LaTeX documents electronically.


> http://www.latex-project.org/ (they have a good introduction about LaTeX).
Also check out http://www.miktex.org for a ready-to-run LaTeX package
for Windows PCs.

And you may want to look for a used copy of Leslie Lamport's LaTeX book.

-Mark

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