Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> With latex it's very different, because there is a little markup to a
> lot of content (and tables are a PITA). The programming can be left
> out, or left for later.

simple tables aren't too painful, as far as mark-up in plain text goes
you can't ask for much simpler than '&' for seperating cells and '\\'
for seperating rows. 

Complex tables are indeed a PITA. 

But I maintain the situation in both cases is a lot better than HTML,
with all those darn verbose start *and end* tags.  For something that
a human is reading and editing, brackets (plus an editor that can tell
you whether they match and what they're matching) seems much
preferable.

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