Homo Sapiens Abstractus

Since I am stuck with Windows, I guess the viable solution for LaTeX is MikTeX. It had served its purpose well, untill recently, when out of a sudden, a XeLaTeX-based project I am working on either could not compile or the resulting PDF was partly unreadable. I reinstalled the whole thing, tried a few quirks but alas!

Then I thought to give TeXLive a try. The documentation, especially as far as installation is concerned, is not good to my taste, but everything went smoothly. As a developer who respects oneself, I already had Perl+Tk installed in my machine, so the GUI installer popped up with no problem and did its job well.

The good news is that now my XeLaTeX project is functional again, out-of-the-box. Good work people of TeXLive!!!

I have been making software for a living for the past decade. But I am just a plain user too. Users demand solutions, meaning things that work; and TeXLive works. This makes me a happy user

I have always been fond of tools that makes life easier….

I recently needed to recompile one of my papers in Greek and mytex did - once more - its job perfectly well.

I made it during my stay at the National Hellenic Documentation Center in order to handle masses of LaTeX-based (!!!) documentation I had produced there.

mytex helps one with the parsing of LaTeX files written in mixed greek and english. It can automatically insert proper babel commands for the language switches.