Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jean Christophe Andr? > <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org> wrote: > >> BTW, here is a very good example of professional quality we can get with >> "Good Old Tools"? like LaTeX: >> http://www.framabook.org/latex.html >> >> And, yes, "of course", the LaTeX sources are available! :-) >> > Please be responsible for the troll :) because I cannot recommend doing DTP > with LaTeX when we talk in terms of productivity. > I don't think there is any troll here: everybody should know that LaTeX is better, in quality *and* productivity (because of the high ability to reuse previous work), once you master it! :-D
But for any *advanced* tool ? and LaTeX is one of this kind ? sure it's not easy to master it and you can not recommend it for low-level quick-and-dirty home-made productions. Say it another way: it is not for those people who press [Enter] 20 times to get more space in the page, and don't want to learn there is a better way to do it! (?sig?) In fact this is what the author says in his introduction: "Five good reasons for not using LaTeX There is multiple reasons why you should absolutely not use LaTeX: 1. you use a word-processor only to make your wishing cards, your email, write a few notes, and so on ; 2. you love mice (1 or 3 buttons indifferently) and you think the only way to write equations is to use them (the mice) a lot ; 3. you think Unix is headache and not user-friendly and/or you specifically hate every programming language ; 4. you find normal : 1/ that your preferred software can not read the document you've produced in the previous version, and/or 2/ that the new version force you to change you operating system, and 3/ that the new version of that so-called operating system force you to change your computer, and 4/ that your new computer? 5. you don't know where is the \ key on your keyboard ; If you recognize yourself in any of these categories, you should continue using your current system." Note: the translation is from me, so it's probably not as good as the French version is! -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 260 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20090206/6b01f8fb/attachment.pgp
