Yaakov Stein wrote: > > > ... and don't get me started on LaTeX. > > I am not sure what problems you had with LaTeX, but as someone who has > written thousands of pages using TeX, > I can't imagine anything better for professional document preparation.
I bought the TeXbook in 1989 and liked it, despite the learning curve. I tried LaTeX in 1992 and junked it. The header&footers used in the LaTeX book where impossible to create with LaTeX (which I think amounts to cheating), so I dropped back to plain TeX. The problem with most LaTeX documents I came across in 1991-1995 was that they used style files that were extremely hard to find (for someone not using a particular universities infrastructure). The TeX language/syntax takes a little getting used to. Personally I don't like XML at all, and the IETF should NEVER standardize on a particular tool, if any, but only on a very restricted subset of XML tags, if any. (So that tools more mainstream languages can be produced and used). -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
