On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I am not smart enough to learn TeX.
Then why on Earth do you think you have anything worthwhile to add to world literature in writing a book? > Besides, anyone who would use something like TeX to layout a document > must be freakin' nuts. :) The goal is not layout control, but document processing. If you design your tags well, you can alter the meanings of your macros after the fact to modify the layout for different targets. Concern yourself with writing well first and presentation later. LaTeX allows you to label your work as you go for intent and choose how that appears on the screen/paper/t-shirt when you're done writing -- choosing, for instance, which words or phrases get emphasis in a particular sentence, but deciding later whether that means italics, bold, or forty-points larger type. Also, using include statements to organize chapters, sections, and subsections is heavenly for longer works all the while tracking references without having to know whether what you're writing will be chapter three or six. J. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
