begin  quoting Christian Seberino as of Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:27:05PM -0800:
> 
> On Fri, February 23, 2007 3:49 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > TeX.
> >
> > --
> > Beautiful output. Text input. Too bad it's turing-complete.
> 
> Do you feel the same way about Latex?  I've used Latex a lot.  Isn't Latex
> just a wrapper around TeX to make it easier?

Yes, LaTeX is a set of TeX macros (like Emacs was a set of TECO macros)
that almost completely changes the input "feel"... and why I've never
managed to get comfortable with LaTeX, it's also not too bad.

> Hey I'm ok with Latex.  Dunno how to get rest of world to use it.

I don't feel any particular need to have *everyone* do the same thing.
 
> So what you are saying is the presentation tools of XML/XHTML
> world...(XSL, CSS) aren't powerful enough to be as precise as you'd like
> as Latex is?
 
Um, no.

-- 
On a totally different map.
Stewart Stremler


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