On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:15:38AM +0000, John Levon spake thusly: > > > Math typesetting is intrinsically complex. Mathed has nothing to be > > ashamed of. > > Bunk. The typesetting may be complex, but that is done by the computer > not by the user.
By LaTeX, actually. And yes, it does a great job. > The user does structured composition and editing. That's what I meant. In the case of LyX, doing it visually and maintaining near-WYSIWYG (i.e., keeping up with LaTeX) is pretty complex. > Furthermore, the alleged complexity of something is NEVER an excuse for > a bad UI. Indeed. But would you call the mathed UI 'bad'? Come on! Compare with Word's formula editor any day. > Compare Blender (complex facilities, unusable UI) with Logic > Audio (complex facilities, usable-as-hell in comparison). Don't know them. I believe you :-) > regards > john > > -- > "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: > for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." > - Matthew 5:37 on the binary number system > Martin
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