Unless you intend to write a book or you are heavily into writing technical documentation with mathematical formulae then I suggest you just use a word processor or go with Lyx.(a GUI for LaTeX)
For the Canterbury Computer Science degree we had to learn it and one of my biggest bug-bears with it is that you have to write a "script" that defines your document. And I used to get very grumpy trying to debug a blasted document! Documents are hard enough to get right as it is without trying to get another syntax right. Latex is good for what it is but it is *not* for writing casual one page documents or similar. (However if you are a maths/science teacher then nothing beats it for formulae.) On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:15, Paul wrote: > Ok, I **have** done a search in google and I " LaTeX is a macro package which > sits on top of TeX" and I know that it is a type setting program - what > exacly is that? What can be done with it that I cant do on kword? And, is it > worth learning? -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 3642222
