Having prepared two of my publications using word processors and the rest (inlcuding a PhD dissertation) with LaTeX, I much prefer LaTeX for seriosu publishing. As Anselm noted, pdflatex is a great program which produces excellent output. I have a lot of math in some of my stuff and typesetting math with a word processor is a nightmare IMHO. Pulling bibtex refs directly from mathscinet also means that a bibliography, even with over 100 entries is easy to maintain and format. Even a small bibliography drove us nuts with word processors, although I gather they may have improved a bit in that area. A word processing program is NOT a typesetting program and it isn't a publishing program.
I will grant that inexperienced users find word processing programs more natural than marked up languages, but the simplicity comes with a corresponding loss of capability. Ian Shields Ph.D. Linux Technologist, ISV & Developer Relations IBM Corp Research Triangle Park, NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/26/2007 02:09:20 PM: > Anselm Lingnau wrote: > > With respect, this is rubbish. It is understandable rubbish coming > from someone like Evan who, as he says, hasn't used LaTeX »in > years«, but it is > > still rubbish. > > > Fair enough. I'll take detailed comments offline, as they're of > decreasing relevance here (unless someone wants to make a TeX > certification). ;-) > > I was a member of TUG, the TeX Users Group, back in my deeply involved > days, and it seemed at the time that the environment was fairly static > and not moving forward. Thankfully, things have picked up, and times > like this I'm quite happy to be be proven wrong. > > My last word here: Is there a tool to translate between .tex files and > ODF (or Docbook XML)? > > - Evan
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