just changing subject line i've heard a lot of good things about LaTeX
from my friends in germany who are on a group .. its tight, small ? ..pk ----- Original Message ----- From: Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Fair or COMPASS > 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 > -- 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
