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Writing with LaTeX on linux with pleasure
For last 3 years, I was balancing between OpenOffice and Latex and I always slipped back to OpenOffice, just because the comfort that OO provides. But beautiful Latex world was so desirable for me, that it couldn’t let me sleep.
Finally, after 3 years of wandering I managed to get it working as I expect it to work. Of course Latex is here and working for very very long time and it is still professionals choice, however with installation and configuration it is pretty challenging to get it into a shape you expect it to be. I moved recently to OpenSUSE with KDE environment and I had some free time, so I decided give it a shot here. Best user friendly tool I found on KDE is Kile, so why not:
yast -i kile texlive-latex
And guess what. Everything just works out of the box. I mean, I managed to install Latex on other distribution (even on one especially crazy called MS Windows XP…), but I never manage to get it into right shape with my primary language – Slovak. We have some pretty crazy diacritics here, I just can’t help it, I want it all there :> Few times I got it working, but diacritic was just ugly (misplaced). After I installed Kile and texlive-latex package on OpenSUSE 10.3, I opened Kile and with simple wizard I generated header which looks like this:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[slovak]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
From now on I’m lucky Latex newbie user with really nice looking .pdf output with correct diacritics. See it for yourself – HERE. I’m not into technical details of Latex, I just want to use it, so I don’t know what’s right here or what’s wrong there, I just wanted to make report of successful out-of-box installation with OpenSUSE 10.3
