New Members ⇒ Greetings from the Philippines

[hpesoj626]

My first introduction to LaTeX was in 2008, when I was taking my MS in Mathematics. I was curious how my professor was able to produce a test paper of very beautiful typography. I have to admit that I procrastinated for a while (one year) before working through Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX because writing text programmatically was an entirely new concept to me. I did not take it seriously until 2009 when I realized I couldn't do some fancy mathematics stuff with the word processor and because I really like the Computer Modern font that LaTeX uses. I realized later that writing documents with LaTeX is a logical way of typesetting my documents. The thing that makes LaTeX a winner is that I no longer have to keep on clicking in order to typeset math symbols.

Now, I use LaTeX for all my typesetting needs as a high school mathematics teacher. I often make use of TikZ and friends although I still have to finish reading the whole pgf manual. Perhaps, if time permits, I would read TeX by Topic or the TeX Book but definitely not in the near future.

Learning LaTeX is fun and I think that I enjoy it so much that I am willing to learn more of it and share some of what I know about it (however how minimal).

Mabuhay! (Long live!)

[cgnieder]

Hi hpesoj626,

Welcome to the LaTeX community. Thanks for this:

I am willing to learn more of it and share some of what I know

Best

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Kumusta?

Welcome to the board!

Nice to read that you use TikZ. I like TikZ too. Did you already produce some good graphics with it? If you would like to publish some at the TikZ Example Gallery, just let me know.

Stefan

[hpesoj626]

Thanks for the warm welcome.

@Stephan_K, I like tikZ a lot but I haven't done anything as fancy as those published in TeXample.net. Maybe in the (not so near) future. I have an account at {TeX} SX with the same user name (I can't access it for two days now, though. I wonder why? I can't access any of the SX sites for two days now actually.)

Thanks again for the welcome.