On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bob Williams wrote:
> After doing some reading, I think I'm becoming a convert. I can think of
> a number of tasks that I have done in the past where the layout was the
> difficult task. And, like many, I am NOT an expert at typesetting. To
> think that I can produce professional, type-set looking documents without
> knowing too much about typesetting....and all this with a plain-vanilla
> text editor and some utilities!
If you have a good set of TeX/LaTeX macros, it becomes much easier to make
documents. Building up that collection of macros is something else. Is TUG
still alive? Maybe sharing TeX/LaTeX macros might help propagate the use
of TeX/LaTeX?
What I like about TeX is that it really gives you control over the final
print if you wanted that. With GUI stuff, a lot of times, WYSINotWYG. Plus
TeX output is pretty portable.
The only thing I can see that might turn users off about it is that it has
something like a write-compile-run cycle. :P
eric
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