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Re: [HM] Historia Matematica: our mailing list
Posted:
Jun 16, 2000 2:22 PM
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> Nim:
>
> I too would like to correspond in LaTeX, which I have on my computer,
> but I don't have the faintist idea of how to send, or receive, e-mail
> that way.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
Hi Sam & to anybody interested in using LaTeX in emails.
To write your email in LaTeX, all you do is put the following line
\documentclass{article}\begin{document}
at the beginning of the email, and the following line at the
end of the email.
\end{document}
You then write your email as normal between these two lines.
To view your email as a LaTeX document, you go into your
email program and save the email as text. For example, in Pine
you type 'e' and then the name of the file that you want to call
the email. In Outlook Express/Netscape, you select the whole
of the email text with Ctrl-A, you open up Notepad, cut and paste
the text between the email program and Notepad. Save the text
in Notepad as a file.
Having saved the email as a file, you run LaTeX usually
by typing 'latex filename' and then you view it with your
local dvi viewer.
Warm regards,
Nim.
NB. Figures could be handled using the macros within LaTeX for
drawing pictures and figures. The program TexCad is freely
available and run on DOS and UNIX, and will allow you
to easily draw a diagram and 'write' out the diagram in
terms of the LaTeX macros. You then cut and paste
this output into your text, surrounded by the two lines
\begin{figure}
and
\end{figure}
When people run your email through LaTeX your original diagram should
reappear.
NNB. The above is *very basic*, but should cater for nearly all the emails
on this list.
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