I can’t be bothered ranting…title said it all. I wasted a good 2-3 hours setting stuff up on Windows (and didn’t get there), it was like 2 commands on Ubuntu Linux Maverick Meerkat (10.10). Those two commands were discovered by typing the commands found at:
http://www.ringlord.com/publications/latex-pdf-howto/
Basically typing latex and thumbpdf, and following the Ubuntu command prompt instructions. Kind of felt like xkcd’s python:
http://www.xkcd.com/353/
import antigravity
❤ Ubuntu + LaTeX, especially awesome for all the math-oriented stuff. Donald Knuth’s years of toiling were not in vain!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History
Peter Johannes Schmidt 