-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 01:35, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: >>>> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 Micha Feigin >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] >>> I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one >>> page of a document you will be better of with LaTeX. Word output >>> might be ok for a quick fax, but the printed text from a half-way >>> decent printer will always look better, if it's done in LaTeX. >> Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, that amount of >> precision doesn't really matter. > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't > care how ugly their printed documents look. They accept what they are > used to accept. When they are told about LaTeX, they fear the effort > that might be involved in getting used to create documents in a > different way and don't take the time to have a closer look. They also > don't take the time to even ponder about the possibility that LaTeX's > concept of separating structure, content and layout would boost their > productivity in the long run or not. And they know that within their > ranks they stick with the majority and thus can't be wrong. > > In this way, talking to M$ word users about LaTeX is just about the same > as talking to M$ O$ users about linux or debian. They might struggle > with some of the shortcomings, but their pain is not big enough to leave > the mainstream and to dare the move to another way of working.
But you see, there's the issue. There *is* *no* *pain* writing short, relatively simple documents with word processors. Even for mid-length documents, I've /read/ (but have no first-hand knowledge) that OOo2 works very well if you understand how OOo templates work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF0cGAS9HxQb37XmcRAuq6AKDaLljz9J3Ob+pyOpUCd4P46McfCwCg0Zqy cyKYD7qmvCWnivMv1UJLn70= =xkgn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]