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A friend's paper and LaTeX

robert | 06 June, 2006 22:26

I have been helping a friend that need to write a paper with complex mathematical equations, so I am remembering a lot of what I learned of LaTeX. I did not needed to convince him to dump traditional word processors because he was experiencing a lot of crashes and performance problems with MS Word. To recommend him to use OpenOffice is not the solution either because, like MS Word, it is not designed for this kind of job. I only needed to show him a few samples made with LaTeX: Physics and Mathematics Formularies.

Those formularies make me remember that I learned a lot of that stuff; I specially breathed the Electricity & Magnetism chapter, but my fixation on computer sciences forced me to store all that important knowledge deep in my brain, not forgotten, just stored on very slow RAM. I am beginning to think that I must pursue a degree in physics, that was always what I wanted to study, but one day a honest and short conversation with my physics teacher on high school convinced me to take other option. Things in the office are begining to slow down, not because there is less work, but because I needed to do something not easy for me, manage the bigger picture and let the details to others, so I hope to be in the situation where I can really dedicate time to the physics degree, well a few years ago I never thought to be able to have time to study the Japanese language, but now I am studying it, so time will tell.

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