On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:18, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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)
Ahhh, try Simplified DocBook [www.oasis-open.org]
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q57762192
Much like DocBook, but with less tags. (Hence the simplified part.)
Now the 2� from the Geek who has a Nic' of "LaTeX Lad"
\begin{rant}[passion=high]
LaTeX is *the* best document description language out there. It removes
you from the hassle of saying what your document looks like (pure
WYSISYG), it does not have a verbose tag syntax (SGML), and it does not
require you to learn multiple languages to define macros or styles
(SGML, Word). Add to that it has the *BEST* text-layout algorithm out
there (except for Adobe InDesign, which stole the TeX algorithm).
LaTeX is Gods Gift. If more people used LaTeX we would eliminate hunger
and nuclear weapons. I new a person who almost got kicked out of a
commerce-course for getting a "professional" in to do their document
typesetting when all that had happened was they used LaTeX instead of
the bastardised abomination of a WYSISYG system that is Word. If
nothing else it will ease RSI as you don't have to lift your hand from
the keyboard to do any formatting.
Writing LaTeX documents is very similar to writing SGML documents,
except in-line block have commands that look \like{this} and display
blocks look like the rant I am currently in. You can also have small
macros, equivalent to the SGML entities, that look like \this .
For those who have never dirtied themselves with HTML or the like, think
of it like writing a document with "show codes" turned on all the time.
(As a fairly proficient WordPerfect 5.0 user, I did all my work with
show-codes on.)
\end{rant}
I don't use LaTeX for anything that has to be viewed on-line. I'm
beginning to use DocBook for that.
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Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
