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From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What is latex
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:18:57 +1300
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
>
>
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Nick Rout
Barrister & Solicitor
Christchurch, NZ
Ph +64 3 3798966
Fax + 64 3 3798853
http://www.rout.co.nz
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