On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much 
> less so.
> 
> Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even 
> exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author themselves. 
> Other users especially those trying to get started are overlooked. LyX has 
> the tutorial document, which is a good start. LaTeX has been around for so 
> long that beginners' documentation is rarely provided; we are all assumed to 
> be experts. 

I think I'm gonna go with koma, Trevor. For one, the documentation strikes me 
as excellent. Certainly compared to memoir.

Don't remember where I accessed them at the moment, or which ones, but I did 
take a look at a few class documents. There were a couple relatively simple 
ones that I could make rough sense of. Many were overwhelming. I'd like to have 
at least some idea what I'm working with, and to be able to refer back to the 
class document while I'm working with it to see if I can learn how it works. 

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
[email protected]




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