On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today > > that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and > > completeness (proper version control of all documentation, with the > > version numbers automatically printed in the footer is just one such > > example) > > Tell me about it. I wish people would invest a little time in learning > LaTeX. I deal with documentation all day and even from within the same > department, it is all a mish-mash of different things (produced mostly > in Word), with no standardization whatsoever. > > With LaTeX, you could have centralized version control of all documents, > with centralized control of standard style sheets. Of course, that will > never happen as long people believe that they have a pressing need for > WYSIWYG. Of course, I can't remember who said it (maybe Leslie > Lamport), WYSIWYG is better stated as WYSIAYG---what you see is *all* > you get. > > Regards, > > -Roberto
what a great thread. hopefully we can begin 'subject'ing it properly with this mail. what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled by a wysiwig. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
