On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:59 +0000, Dieter wrote: > There is probably an existing document somewhere that explains LaTeX, > and OGP could provide a URL. Why reinvent the wheel?
I can recommend "lshort" (A Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε). > > In the unix world, latex is standard > > man -k latex > latex: nothing appropriate > > The Unix documentation system is the roff family. Please! Pretty much only for man pages. Info pages use an ugly TeX variant (and probably constitute a far bigger amount of documentation on most unix installations). > LaTeX is an alternative documentation system, it is well down the list > and losing ground. Is it? There's OpenDoc, of course, based on SGML (in the old days) or XML (nowadays). It tends to use LaTeX as a layout engine when generating Postscript and PDF. It also tends to be very verbose. No, what will end up killing LaTeX is the new version of Word. > > and can be easily installed. > > Maybe, maybe-not, but why should an end-user need to? Some machine can > automagically create a few common formats, that most people already have > viewers for, like html/pdf/info/whatever and install them on some web server. It seems like they were going to do this already. > I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong with LaTeX, or that it > shouldn't be used. I'm just suggesting that there is no need to burden > end-users with learning about LaTeX, It doesn't seem to me like anybody was intending to do that :) -Peter _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
