I've always thought it would be good for legal documents, if you could dumb it down enough for legal secretaries (that sounds awful but most of them treat word like a typewriter you don't need to put a ribbon in)
features it seems would be good in my line of work: 1. documents need to follow a number of style formats, eg letters, Court documents (different styles for different courts). 2. documents need good and configurable multi-depth numbering & outlining, as well as headings to go with it. 3. documents can lend themselves to variables and scripting - eg a set of mirror wills for husband & wife, changing him/his to her/hers or them/theirs, choosing options for documents (eg put in grandchildren, provide for mistress, etc), dragging client details from a database etc. One day I will grok LaTeX or [k]lyx and combine it with a new gui frontend linked to a database back end make it all work. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:05:41 +1300 Mark Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:00, Peter Glassenbury wrote: > > > Latex is good for what it is but it is *not* for writing casual one page > > > documents or similar. > > What -- that is mainly what I use it for (since I don't write > > large documents.) > > I use it for both, casual and formal documents, I love that I can > concentrate on the content and not split hairs about the positioning of > my tables or figures ..... yes you can have tables and figures in a > letter. > > Mark > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
