On 3 March 2012 22:37, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > 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.
Make no mistake, latex makes beautiful documents (so can OpenOffice), but it is not the layout I have an issue with. My issue with latex is simply to display certain characters. I often have to escape common English characters, so that latex interprets them correctly. This is what slows me down, and what obfuscates the text I am writing - and most importantly, breaks my flow of information. I'm sure with years of latex experience, like you have, those escaped characters and obscure text you need to type to insert a table etc will come naturally. But the generalization that to create beautiful and complex documents, is only possible when using latex, is just not true. OpenOffice is perfectly capable, with a much lower learning curve. And if somebody doesn't use styles in a OpenOffice document, they are at fault, not the OpenOffice product. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
