On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Who wants to be expert in LaTeX or Sphinx? If you've seen the gorgeous > output from those tools, and you enjoy producing a resume, paper, or > presentation slides that look a cut above the norm and you appreciate how > much more logical the entire editing/creation process is, and how much > easier it is to maintain, reformat, or integrate with version control, then > you want to be an expert user of LaTeX/Sphinx/etc. > These claims used to be true maybe ten years ago but Word has come a long way since then and the outputs of the two tools at this point are probably close enough that only die hard typesetting enthusiasts would notice. Myself, I can spot a LaTeX document immediately because all the figures are at the top of the page :-) Joking aside, here is a counterpoint that defends Word over LaTeX: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/874576/is-latex-worth-learning-today Also, Word has some outstanding collaborative support, which is critical when you are writing a book (invaluable for co authors and during the reviewing phase). -- Cédric -- 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.
