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[nikor]

Hi,

My name is Niko, I'm from Heidelberg, Germany. I stumbled upon this site today, when searching for a LaTeX solution via google. I started to learn LaTeX about a year ago, when I had to do a quantitative analysis for a course paper in social sciences. From then on, I started to use LaTeX for all my future papers, just because the result looks so incredibly beautiful compared to other text software .

Just one general question: There seem to post a lot of scientists, statisticians, economists and mathematicians in this Forum. Is there -- or has there been -- also a section for LaTeX in the humanities? For, as I just found out recently, with certain packages you can also do some really crazy stuff involving, for example, ancient Greek text and meter ...

As I learned the code pretty much on an ad hoc-basis, I fear that in the next time, I won't be able to contribute that much, but I'd like to post some questions and maybe, as I learn more, answer a basic question once in a while.

Keep TeXing,

best,
Niko

[localghost]

[...] Just one general question: There seem to post a lot of scientists, statisticians, economists and mathematicians in this Forum. Is there -- or has there been -- also a section for LaTeX in the humanities? For, as I just found out recently, with certain packages you can also do some really crazy stuff involving, for example, ancient Greek text and meter [...]

You are right. Since LaTeX is most spread among scientist, the major part of posts in this forum deals with the according stuff. There are some rare contributions and requests of users which are established in the humanities. But you would have to find the according posts by yourself using the search function of the forum. I remember that I answered to a request concerning ancient Greek. So there should be some search results.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten