https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #205 from liotier <[email protected]> --- On 01/12/2014 01:14 PM, Comment #203 from ther <[email protected]> wrote: > > For documents > 100 pages, consisting of cross references, > bibliographies, graphics, maths, no word-processor can beat the power > of LaTeX... > > the conclusion is, that there are alternative tools to achieve > the objective (logical, structured documents). When the > only tool is a (word-processor) hammer, every problem is seen as a > nail. Word processing is not desktop publishing. What differentiate them is a different compromise between fluid expression and document control. This difference exists both in the WYSIWYG world (Scribus) and in the markup world (LaTeX). Everyone who has used and cursed a word processor has at some point been tempted to use LaTeX... And most of those who were not typesetting to some academic norm or producing a book have gone back to word processing. Why ? Because typesetting posits a pipeline from content to rendering - the creative process is not a linear pipe but a hive of feedback loops... And that is why interactive tools are more popular. Also, WYSIWYG or even pseudo-WYSIWYG makes the embedded rich content part of the creative process, not just a bit of irrelevant ornementation: in a marked up document, I can see that I emmbedded an image - but I can't see so I can't make it part of my thinking... So no LaTeX for me. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
