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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
