Re: LaTex editors and image editors for scientific articles

Commendable effort. After a career mostly helping large-scale technical 
documentation outfits, I have no satisfactory system for producing good 
documents for myself. What little I do involves emacs and open-source 
XML tooling.

On 9/6/24 14:23, Milton Ponson wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After years of keeping notes and mulling over writing articles, I have 
> finally decided to convert these into actual articles for uploading to 
> arXiv and other preprint servers.
>
> I would like to know what the best options are in terms of free or 
> paid LaTex editors to use.

I have no knowledge of LaTeX editing other than emacs, but if you're 
inclined to XML, search "XML and LaTeX" for lots of options. For 
high-quality page layout, the pipeline would probably include XSLT and 
XSL-FO.

Also in the XML space, XQuery for Humanists [1] is a good resource.

For something completely different but quite interesting that might 
align with your LOD goals, see dokieli [2].

>
> And what (free) software to use for creating images and figures, and 
> extensive use of math symbols.

Along with Inkscape and GIMP, there's asymptote [3] to make beautiful 
pictures from math.

Best,
--Paul

[1] https://coding4humanists.github.io/xquery4humanists/
[2] https://dokie.li/
[3] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/

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