On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 03/03/2012, Alexsander Rosa <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem with "secretary's editors" like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is
that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related
activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be
productive. When I was working on my MSc paper, ages ago, I wrote some 40
pages in two months on Word, then converted it to LyX and created 40 more
pages in just one week.
I have used LaTeX and OpenOffice many many
published articles and technical papers, project
specifications etc.
I can honestly say, in my experience LaTeX just
made me slower. I had to fight to figure out how
to get certain text to display correctly, because
it was constantly some or other reserved LaTeX
tag some something.
I believe that.
You should let latex worry about displaying the text correctly.
If you want everything placed just there with just that width
and whatnot, then LaTeX is indeed not your tool, you need a desktop
publishing tool.
I type text, and latex makes a layout that is 99% perfect;
I really don't care about the last 1%.
I've never been able to achieve the same speed with any wordprocessor.
Michael.
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