Re: Scripts

En réponse à Peter Clark <pc451@...>:

>
>         Ah, thanks for the hint. I already had tipa installed (since I'm
> using it to
> write my Enamyn Language Manual) and you're right, that did it.
Good! I have the complete installation of MikTeX (since I need it to write my
scientific articles) and I intend to use it to make a grammar of Astou, one of
my first languages (I'll make soon a webpage about it - finally :)) -. I'm
currently trying - again - to make a nice transliteration that will allow me to
put an HTML grammar of it. But until now - it's been 10 years - I never managed
to make a satisfactory transliteration :(( ). It's written with a slightly
derived version of the Greek alphabet, and I've discovered that LaTeX had
exactly the packages I need (namely Greek 6 century BC alphabet and tipa :)) ).
Only LaTeX allows me to use the diacritics I want on the letters I want (I
still have to do some experiments, but it seems to work :) ).

>         *PLUG* If any of you are interested in creating beautiful
> documents, LaTeX
> is defintely the way to go, although it can be initially frightening for
> the
> new beginner. This fright, however, is easily removed by using LyX (very
> easy
> to run on any *nix system; for Windows, you need Cygwin installed), and
> once
> v. 2.0 comes out in a couple weeks, you won't be stuck using that
> awful
> xforms GUI (there will be frontends in QT, GTK, and xforms, so take
> your
> pick). See http://www.lyx.org for more details.
Personally, I installed Winshell to write my .tex files, 4Project to keep track
of the complicated files and 4Spell to check spelling. I find it quite enough.
No need for fancy WYSIWYG :)) (I've thought of installing LyX, but then I saw
an explanation on how to install it. Well, whether I lack the skills, or it's
horribly complicated to install! At least, it's complicated on a Windows
computer!). But then, I write my webpages with Wordpad, so separating
visualisation from actual creation is something I'm used to :)) .

Christophe.

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