Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms (was: New styled FGFS--Manual)

2012-02-29 Thread Jörg Emmerich
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 12:06 +0200, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Naturally, LaTeX is not some click-it tool, it's a powerful and flexible tool, and so it must be learned. Which is work, and that's not well-taken in the shiny Web 2.0 world, so... the digital natives can't do it. They have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms

2012-02-29 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Actually I wonder a little why you accept using a modern tool like LaTeX being just 20 years old - while we all learned that the optimum scholar-environment was developed by the old Greeks (to my knowledge without any computers and/or LaTeX) -- after that we never had such a development of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms

2012-02-29 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 29.02.12 11:17, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: Spring has come. LaTex and Wikibooks got married. Have a look: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX LaTeX is a featured book on Wikibooks because it contains substantial content, it is well-formatted, and the Wikibooks community has decided to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms (was: New styled

2012-02-29 Thread Martin Spott
Jörg Emmerich wrote: ~20 years ago: Those wonderful PDF-files were introduced - we now could even transfer documents from one PC to another - even with different Operating Systems and/or different printer capabilities! That was also when LaTeX was developed [...] I'll skip all the other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms

2012-02-29 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: Spring has come. LaTex and Wikibooks got married. Have a look: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX I guess the missing link would be an option to writing a Wiki using genuine LaTeX syntax and templates. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms

2012-02-29 Thread thorsten . i . renk
~20 years ago: Those wonderful PDF-files were introduced - we now could even transfer documents from one PC to another - even with different Operating Systems and/or different printer capabilities! That was also when LaTeX was developed [...] I'll skip all the other stuff because I've

[Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms (was: New styled FGFS--Manual)

2012-02-28 Thread thorsten . i . renk
I discovered I really need a break from coding and debugging (found myself dreaming about haze rendering lately, and that's usually a warning sign), so I may have time for some philosophy (feel free to skip, it's not about FGFS in particular). I was surprised that this shift in Paradigms has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web 2.0 paradigms

2012-02-28 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: That's my two cents to the new paradigm. Hear, hear ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --