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LaTeX is a program that can be run virtually by virtually any operating system on this planet and PCs that are not very powerful either. LaTeX has always been exactly the same graphic result on any machine where it is run and at any time the code has been written. For LaTeX there are no backward versions, everything is complete backward compatible! So who wants to develop his gauge or other graphic elements, manuals, maps etc. it is always advised to attach a copy of the original LaTeX so that anyone who modifies an aircraft may also modify the graphic elements that make up the aircraft. | LaTeX is a program that can be run virtually by virtually any operating system on this planet and PCs that are not very powerful either. LaTeX has always been exactly the same graphic result on any machine where it is run and at any time the code has been written. For LaTeX there are no backward versions, everything is complete backward compatible! So who wants to develop his gauge or other graphic elements, manuals, maps etc. it is always advised to attach a copy of the original LaTeX so that anyone who modifies an aircraft may also modify the graphic elements that make up the aircraft. | ||
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If you want to use LaTeX not only to do small jobs, as I explained in this guide, but also documents (maybe your FGFS manuals for your plane) you can follow many guides to explain how to do it. I remind you that LaTeX is an absolutely professional program and its complete installation requires a space of several GBs! Anyway, I think the satisfaction of having a video editing and composition system like LaTeX is well worth the effort of a not banal installation. | If you want to use LaTeX not only to do small jobs, as I explained in this guide, but also documents (maybe your FGFS manuals for your plane) you can follow many guides to explain how to do it. I remind you that LaTeX is an absolutely professional program and its complete installation requires a space of several GBs! Anyway, I think the satisfaction of having a video editing and composition system like LaTeX is well worth the effort of a not banal installation. | ||
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For publishers the choice is vast, in Linux I use TeXstudio that I find it really good, or who uses KDE can try Kile is cute and well done, but maybe TeXstudio is really more powerful. | |||
If you want to use a word processing system that is more like Write or Word, you can use LyX (https://www.lyx.org/) a program I have been using for more than 10 years and with which I could do wonderful things . However LyX always produces a LaTeX document. | |||
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