On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Richard O'Regan wrote: > Years ago I experimented with TeX but found it too difficult and not > entirely practical if one is not actually writing, but is removing > wrongly-formatted texts and re-formatting them.
Could you please describe in a few more words the 'removing' and 're-formatting' tasks you need to be done? My first impression is that this does not exactly sound like a TeX problem but rather a problem with the editor you used. > I know that Tex produced much better looking documents than Word, > FrameMaker, Indesign, but to me it appeared more designed for the > writing writer, rather than for an editor working with already > prepared documents. TeX is a typesetting program, not a text editor. You can use any texteditor you like to edit LaTeX sources. You could even use Word as text editor and still do the actual typesetting with LaTeX if you feel like it (no, I don't recommend this). I'd think we could give you better advice if you elaborate a bit more on your tasks and what exactly was the 'failure' of TeX. Andre'
