I'm none too pleased about not being allowed to hand write our assignments. However, I'm appeasing myself with the justification that it's about time I learned how to write LaTeX anyways. Another upside is the white-out to be saved. Hooray, saved white-out!
This is going to be a live-blog (sLog?). What I mean by this, is that in a similar vein to live-tweeting and event, I will be live blogging this event. Here we go! I'm starting at the course homepage, and clicking through to the "a1.tex" file.
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OK. So I probably should have expected as much but the .tex file just opens in my browser like a .txt file. Must find an environment....
Settling with LyX. After trying to find an online editor, and failing, and then trying see if I could export a .tex file from word or notepad or something, and failing, I've conceded to downloading a new program. After some research into what program that should be, I've settled with LyX.
Wikipedia tells me LyX is WYSIWYM, not WYSIWYG. After reading Alex's struggle with this paradigm, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll just intuitively understand it.
(Side note - I love installers. So seamless! One day I'm going to learn how to make installers and it's going to be glorious.)
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I have come to the decision that it will be more fruitful to actually read the LyX intro/documentation/tutorial than it will be to simply keep my fingers crossed. So...I'll let you guys know how that goes?
Over, and out.
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