<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">LaTeX is a powerful tool for creating scientific documents. Is a fact that archeology papers frequently include ancient alphabets, special text references, mathematic symbols and graphics. LaTeX makes all this possible and even more, like including video or 3D models. <br>Kile is a good LaTeX editor but requires a lot of KDE libraries, but there's other similar options like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker">Texmaker</a>.<br><br>A good <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software">bibliography management software</a> should also be include (i.e. Pybliographer, KBibTeX ...). <br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Denis Francisci said</span>:<br><br><pre><span style="font-style: italic;">I've tested kile for latex and we could install:</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br
style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- texlive-fonts-extra (for archaic font, eg. greek, etruscan, cuneiform,</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">linear A, hieroglif.....)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- texlive-latex-recommended (very important)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">- texlive-latex-extra (less important but usefull)</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">They are in repository but require a bit of space (more than 50M I think):</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">it could be a problem, but first and second are usefull for archaeologists</span><br>IMHO.<br></pre><br></td></tr></table><br>