Now and the future
Recently, I have been busy doing paper work for Oxford. I also need to do more paper work for my new visa and funding. Meanwhile, I am trying to learn algebraic topology from time to time, and I am currently reading about homotopy groups. The more I study pure mathematics, it feels that mathematics is much more structured and approachable than theoretical physics. In an interview, Atiyah once said one of the reason he chose to be a mathematician is because he found that chemistry was hard[1].
For the next few posts, I will write about TeX for my friend. The articles will be aimed for beginners, especially social scientists, but to be frank because I do not use Windows any more, I am not sure how in depth I can cover about the installation process (for Windows machines). I am planning to cover roughly the installation of TeX, some basic template files, AMS-TeX, XeTeX. This is quite overly ambitious, I’ll see how it goes.
For Windows, the `standard’ installation is MiKTeX — there are plenty of how-to guides if one searches online. Good front-ends are LEd (LaTeX Editor) and WinEdt.
Also, I object to your statement that mathematicians are more approachable than physicists!
Best of luck with paperwork, homotopy, and BRS(T).
hey mars
there’s also a nice front end (which is platform independent) called TeXmaKer
Evan
For Korean articles, there’s KC2006-2. It supports Unicode system, so there’s no obstacle to write Korean languages (and also Chinese and Japanese).
See http://faq.ktug.or.kr/faq/KTUGCollection2006