Raja Guha wrote: > > >>2. I think we should also explain the use of Latex. People think it is > >>only useful for publishing technical papers. This is NOT true !! In fact > >>Letters and articles can be much easily written in Latex than in msword. > > > > > > Yes, I agree with Sourangshu! > > there seem to be a strong anti-gui group. do we have volunteers from > amongst them?
Pro-LaTeX is not anti-GUI. After all, LaTeX wouldn't be of much use, despite its tremendous power, if one couldn't see the formatted text on screen before printing it out. And that needs some kind of GUI. Speaking purely of text processors (and word processors), getting to love LaTeX is a little like learning to appreciate sushi, I guess. One has to develop a taste for it. Writing a casual letter or note? MSWord is fine. Wring a technical document with lots of math and Greek and diagrams and references? Tear your hair out with MSWord, breeze through your job with LaTeX. That's the difference. (My text processor is groff, which is similar to LaTeX in philosophy -- and power. And available in all its glory on all Linux systems.) - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
