Re: [TeXstudio-list] Draft copy of book on LaTeX

[Tim H. <tho...@te...>]

Dear John,

Thank you for recommending TeXstudio as a LaTeX editor. I just browsed 
through your book quickly. So please forgive me, if I point at something 
that you already wrote. Here are some features of TeXstudio, which I 
find very valuable for increasing the productivity when writing LaTeX 
documents:

Tables:
Working with tables in LaTeX is a pain, because text lines aren't well 
suited for maintaining data on a grid. As you mentioned, we provide some 
basic assistant for creating tables. But that's only half a solution. It 
doesn't work if you want to modify tables later on. For that reason, 
we've decided that it's essential to improve editing of the the textual 
representations themselves:
- Align Colums: This reformats the text by aligning colums. It's much 
easier to comprehend and navigate a table if it's aligned.
- Add / Delete / Cut / Paste Columns
- Multiple Cursors (or Block-Cursors) for editing multiple positions 
simultaneously (hold Ctrl+Alt and Click+Drag the mouse or Ctrl+Alt+Click 
at various locations)

Images:
The Insert Graphics Wizard helps to generate the code for image 
inclusion (if the requirements are not too fancy - but it's a good start 
for unexperienced users). In contrast to other assistants, you can 
re-open the dialog and edit everything in there. To do so, just place 
the cursor within some figure code and start the wizard.
To increase productivity, you can drag&drop images on the editor (also 
multiple images at once). The assistant is started for every image.

File templates (File -> Make template / New from template) may be handy 
for creating multiple similar documents, e.g. exercise sheets.

Spreadsheet Tables:
http://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/wiki/Scripts/#paste-as-latex-table

Some sections of Tips and Tricks might be interesting too:
http://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/wiki/Tips%20and%20Tricks/

Cheers,
Tim

Am 01.09.2014 21:30, schrieb John Frain:
> I have compiled a set of notes entitled "Applied LaTeX for Economists,
> Social Scientists and Others". These notes can be downloaded from
> http://ideas.repec.org/p/tcd/tcduee/tep0214.html. The abstract to the
> set of notes reads -
>
> This document provides an introduction to LaTeX for Economists, Social
> Scientists and those in similar disciplines. While LaTeX is of
> particular interest to those preparing documents containing some
> mathematics, tables or graphs its typesetting facilities can also
> benefit those preparing documents containing only textual material.
> The document emphasizes the use of a modern interface such as
> TeXstudio which simplifies the use of LaTeX. The document also
> contains details as to how other software such as
> statistical/econometric packages, spreadsheet, word-processing and
> graphics programs may be used in conjunction with LaTeX.
>
> The set of notes can be regarded as a preliminary version of a book
> which reflects my own use of LaTeX over many years and that of other
> colleagues that I have introduced to or helped with LaTeX. I would
> welcome any comments on the document.
>
> Best Regards
>
> John C Frain, Ph.D.
>
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