What I mean is that if you only do casual one page documents then it not worth climbing the learning curve when a word-processor can do it all for you.
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:00, Peter Glassenbury wrote: > Zane Gilmore 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 have always felt that it is ideal for repetative tasks. > If you always type a letter to go on a certain letterhead > or do the minutes for a committee, > you set up a template and away you go. Exactly, "set up a template" And if you want to put in a table or make a font bigger then it gets very hairy very fast. Especially if you're trying to find a tiny typo in a huge table. > > The content is what you need to concentrate on because the > style is handled for you. > > Pete > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - I N V E S T I N A L L U N I V E R S I T Y S T A F F - > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Glassenbury Computer Science dept. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Canterbury > +64 3 3642987 ext 7762 New Zealand -- 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
