Just a suggestion, but rather than hire a ‘LaTeX guru’, why not use LyX? If you don’t know about it, LyX is a GUI word processor that’s very, very easy to use, will output clean LaTeX, and is absolutely perfect for writing scientific papers in (it’s the only word processor I know of that has a full section in its Help menu on how to do Feynman diagrams).
I wrote my last three books (plus tons of short stories) in it, and I’d guess that for an investment of at most five to ten hours time upfront, anyone could produce beautifully typeset LaTeX in it without ever needing to drop down to the actual code, and I find writing in it MUCH easier than writing in MS Word or a Wordalike, because it doesn’t actually fight the writer.
I think the SI is looking for someone who can make some nice LaTeX-classes; when those are done, people can use whatever editor is the best for them (including LyX) for writing the papers.
BTW, it would be excellent if SI would make their templates available, the example looks very nice.
Please, consider TeXmacs: http://texmacs.org/ (TeXmacs is not based on LaTeX, but can export to LaTeX or HTML if it is necessary.) Make an informed choice between TeXmacs and LyX.
Why? What about using “standard copy/paste key bindings” (which are now active by default) and clicking your way through the graphical icons and the drop-down menus?
But it’s probably difficult to get fancy effects without learning TeXmacs more deeply. Unfortunately I can’t compare with LyX (I happen to be a TeXmacs believer… but by no means a guru—not being “motivated” enough to study the manual!)
An important thing is to take notice of the key binding for a command when you’ve finally found it in the menus. Also, if you remember a LaTeX construct, try using it—sometimes it’s available under the same name, e.g. \setminus.)
Just a suggestion, but rather than hire a ‘LaTeX guru’, why not use LyX? If you don’t know about it, LyX is a GUI word processor that’s very, very easy to use, will output clean LaTeX, and is absolutely perfect for writing scientific papers in (it’s the only word processor I know of that has a full section in its Help menu on how to do Feynman diagrams). I wrote my last three books (plus tons of short stories) in it, and I’d guess that for an investment of at most five to ten hours time upfront, anyone could produce beautifully typeset LaTeX in it without ever needing to drop down to the actual code, and I find writing in it MUCH easier than writing in MS Word or a Wordalike, because it doesn’t actually fight the writer.
It’s Free Software, and you can get it from http://lyx.org .
I think the SI is looking for someone who can make some nice LaTeX-classes; when those are done, people can use whatever editor is the best for them (including LyX) for writing the papers.
BTW, it would be excellent if SI would make their templates available, the example looks very nice.
Please, consider TeXmacs: http://texmacs.org/ (TeXmacs is not based on LaTeX, but can export to LaTeX or HTML if it is necessary.) Make an informed choice between TeXmacs and LyX.
TeXMacs is a good piece of software, too, but seems to me to have a much steeper learning curve for those who are used to other word processors.
Why? What about using “standard copy/paste key bindings” (which are now active by default) and clicking your way through the graphical icons and the drop-down menus?
But it’s probably difficult to get fancy effects without learning TeXmacs more deeply. Unfortunately I can’t compare with LyX (I happen to be a TeXmacs believer… but by no means a guru—not being “motivated” enough to study the manual!)
An important thing is to take notice of the key binding for a command when you’ve finally found it in the menus. Also, if you remember a LaTeX construct, try using it—sometimes it’s available under the same name, e.g. \setminus.)
LyX a great tool, I can testify to that.