Greetings, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: >> One main advantage of LaTeX is the visual output. >> http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-word-vs-writer/
Huh? >> >> Apps like OO, Word etc are good for documents. I've found DocBook and > Latex useful when one does compilations where we have chapters, section > headers, subsections etc... These are automatically done based on indents > in OO/Word but the user has only a few controls. DocBook/Latex gives fine > grained controls for these, numbering/labelling figures etc and helps > maintain uniformity across a large document without any overrides. > I don't unerstand what you mean by documents -- short documents or long documents? Would you rate a six pane brochure as a long / short / simple / complex document? What you are probably referring to are the bibligraphic elements, cross referencing, auto-build of TOC, TOF, TOT, Index, Table of citations, Tableof authorities etc. I have been doing all the above on an off from wordperfect 5.1 (yes DOS) / Ventura punlisher days. I still have manuals of WP, Ventura, Quattro pro etc. Unix was expensive then and Linux was not available, Internet came to India much later. While not being a fanboi of any of the product that you mentioned, I would tend to disagree as I have successfully incorporated those from DOS on 386 with 4mb RAM days. Not to mention the LO or OO. I did a 100+ page document of a book with german, english, sanskrit rendered in roman with diacritical marks in MS Word 6.0 under WFW 3.11. If the issue is better laid out then we can discuss and make a useful Decision tree for choosing the right tool. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
