Basic economics. Everyone and their grandmother knows HTML, and can get paid for knowing it. No one can get paid for knowing LaTeX. That and the fact that if your Word document has a bunch of extra tags in it and takes an extra second to open, no one cares. The same can't be said of a slow loading web page.
Regards, Mark On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:23 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do so many web programmers scoff at WYSIWYG HTML tools for their > clumsiness and praise the precision and power of direct markup editing with > their favorite editor or IDE, but then turn around and use the same type of > clumsy WYSIWYG tools for creating documents and slide show presentations > such as OpenOffice, Word, PowerPoint, or Apple Pages/Keynote rather than > the powerful and precise markup tools like LaTeX, Sphinx, etc? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/hw3VhrHv9tQJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
