I personally prefer beamer to prosper and use TeXnicCenter for hard-coding. But for all but the most sophisticated of presentations, Lyx (lyx.org) is a WYSIWYM gui-based editor that will bring you up to speed more quickly.
Our IT dept is pretty "careful" (they won't even install a PHP engine) so I won't be able to get them to install mimetex. I was hoping (dreaming?) for something that would allow me just to write some LaTeX code and have an image generated and inserted into the page so that there is nothing "new"...
I'm doing some web-based college-level course design in fluid mechanics. I'd like an efficient way to incorporate LaTeX equations - preferably on the fly like PF does here. I can create the equations elsewhere (e.g., using TexPoint, PowerPoint and Miktex) and then insert them into my pages but...
I have MikTex installed but don't always want to do a complete document in LaTeX. If you have MikTex installed, a quick and dirty solution to getting equations into Word is to download (free) TexPoint which is a plug-in for PowerPoint. Create an equation image in PPT with LaTex commands, then...