On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:38, Peter Lund wrote: > > I would really rather not burden a busy hardware engineer > > with this. I like LaTeX. I do my homework in it, because I find it > > easier to layout and edit a document with mathematical equations than > > to write it by hand (legibly anyhow). I think LaTeX is awesome. > > It is. It definitely is. But the new Word 2007 also gives you that in > a package that is far easier to learn so I'm afraid LaTeX is going to > die :( New users will just use Word and only people who are set in > their ways will continue using LaTeX (just like the ones that use *roff > for anything but manpages).
I disagree. Every time I've used any version of Word to write a document,
I've found it practically impossible to:
- Get formulas to be numbered
- Add numbers & captions to tables
- Refer to sections in a way that will automatically get updated when I
insert a new one
- Do citations in a sane manner.
Word is not a document preparation system, and neither will Word 2009 be. On
the other hand, LaTeX is pretty hard to do right too. So I use LyX[1] and/or
reST[2], and produce lovely documents with a minimum of effort. WYSIWYM[3]
is the way forward.
Just my £0.02 worth.
Peter
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyx
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
[3] What You See Is What You Mean
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