Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl The fact that they can now use some features that was only found in TeX before is not enough to compete. Will the documents look good automatically, like they do with TeX? Is

Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl The fact that they can now use some features that was only found in TeX before is not enough to compete. Will the documents look good automatically, like they do with TeX? Is

Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-20 Thread Helge Hafting
Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl The fact that they can now use some features that was only found in TeX before is not enough to compete. Will the documents look good automatically, like they do with TeX? Is

MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Neal Becker
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl

Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl Yawn. What the commenters left out of those mostly on-target replies to the original post is that there is more to typesetting a page than ligatures. Intercharacter spacing, using

MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Neal Becker
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl

Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl Yawn. What the commenters left out of those mostly on-target replies to the original post is that there is more to typesetting a page than ligatures. Intercharacter spacing, using

MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Neal Becker
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl

Re: MS word takes on TeX?

2009-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Neal Becker wrote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KggwCNPXuRQ/article.pl Yawn. What the commenters left out of those mostly on-target replies to the original post is that there is more to typesetting a page than ligatures. Intercharacter spacing, using