Okay, I'll rise to that bait. Nothing like a nice cheerful OT war. I'll concede LaTeX's learning curve, and that its PDF support and font management sucks. But it does absolutely gorgeous equations. Easily. And it's got no bugs. And its bibliography engine is pretty cool.
It's not the tool for Neil's job, but if I was writing an equation-rich scientific article for print, I'd choose it over FM. And I'm a long way from being a power user (I live with one; that helps). Just my opinion, too, of course. ;-) Rebecca >>> Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> 02/14/07 11:55 PM >>> At 15:16 -0500 13/2/07, Neil Tubb wrote: >I've been told I have to produce Readmes for several of our products in >text files. I want to be able to control some basic look-and-feel >though, such as column-width, and it was suggested to me to use Groff or >Latex. I've been looking into this for a bit, but can't really figure it >out. Before I spend any more time on this, does anyone have a better >solution? Avoid LaTeX like the plague. It has a learning curve in excess of FrameMaker's. Follows Art's advice. TeX/LaTeX is a dinosaur wallowing in the tar-pit of 8-bit systems and smells of musty storerooms where card-punch machines have gone to die. It is horrendously arcane and completely rooted in the past. Just my opinion, of course ;-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs.
