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I wanna take my physics notes with a computer rather than writing them by hand because my writing becomes illegible sometimes and makes revising a chore. What would be good ...
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- 05-19-2011 #1Just Joined!
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Best mark up language for recording physics notes at college
I wanna take my physics notes with a computer rather than writing them by hand because my writing becomes illegible sometimes and makes revising a chore. What would be good for this, bearing in mind I need to write lots of maths equations and draw many graphs.
Right now I know Latex but I dunno if there's something better.
- 05-19-2011 #2Linux Guru
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When I was taking heavy math notes on the computer, I tended to use LaTeX for the notes, and kept a separate notebook for the graphs. Graphs were just too difficult to write quickly in a note-taking environment.
Having said that, when doing my Physics homework, I used LaTeX, gnuplot for graphs, and xfig for diagrams. You can also check out graphviz for graphs in the CS sense, which are nodes and edges.
- 05-20-2011 #3Linux Guru
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Personally, I use nedit for note-taking as well as code writing. It is an X-Windows text editor for Linux/Unix that was originally developed at Fermi National Laboratory in Illinois for physics researchers. It is now open sourced and maintained on SourceForge.net.
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