David Lyon wrote:
> why Latex in this modern age?
LateX gives you a number of things:
a) Significanlty better layout and rendering.
b) Better control of rendering and layout, particular of
things like mathematical formula.
c) The ability to properly diff version of a document and
to put a document in revision control and have the revision
control system do sensible things with it.
d) Improved ability to handle really large documents (ie
things like PhD theses or complete books).
e) A better separation of actual content from layout
directives.
There is little change of any WYSIWYG documentation package
to ever catch up. I do however think there may be a LaTeX
replacement at some stage, but that will most likely work
much like LaTeX.
Erik
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