On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:59:30 +0000
Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C is extremely common. Most Unix systems come with at least one C compiler.
> LaTeX is nowhere near as common as C. More like Haskell or APL.
I don't know anyone who knows Haskell, i've never heard of APL.
But i know many people who know Latex or at least know
how to get into a dvi, ps or pdf. So i think that Latex
is a lot more common than you think. Also, Latex is together
with docbook the format being used for documentation of
OSS projects (and in my sample space also more popular than docbook).
> > In the unix world, latex is standard
>
> man -k latex
> latex: nothing appropriate
Not being installed on your machine does not mean
that noone has installed it.
> The Unix documentation system is the roff family.
>
> LaTeX is an alternative documentation system, it is well down the list
> and losing ground.
Nope. Latex is _not_ a documentation system.
What you mean is texinfo and that's an abdomination
that should have been never invented (sorry, personal opinion).
> > 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.
We will.
> 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, hunting down LaTeX software, getting
> it to compile, and installing it, etc. when it would be easy to provide them
> with more common formats.
The enduser will not care about these documents anyways.
They are meant for developers. And i very much expect
a developer to be able to install latex if he hasn't already.
Attila Kinali
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