On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
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.
I didn't mean to state that either. I just wanted to say that
for me personally, LaTeX works best.
I 100% agree with your statement about using styles, but will make the
observation that 99% of all people I know does not know/use them in either
MS-office or OO, and uses hand-crafted layout. Latex applies the styles
automatically, which is one of the reasons I forced it on the help writers
here in the company.
Anyway, enough about wordprocessors :)
Michael.
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