On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Norman Bauer wrote:
> Hey Bob,
> ...
> I favor LaTeX because of the huge community that surrounds it and the
> wealth of information that can be derived from it and because it
> produces beautiful documents. That being said, it's also very terse
> and not well known. Since I am the sole programmer I have to consider
> the person who will inevitably fill my shoes one day when I move on.
> What is the likely hood of them knowing LaTeX? How difficult would it
> be for them to learn? and so on. When taking questions like that into
> consideration you can see how they may tip the scales in favor of
> another method.
Point well taken. Another point might be this: is the tool designed for
the problem you're trying to solve?
It would appear that LaTex was designed for fine-grained typesetting,
including mathematical and engineering formulas.
Print Wizard Markup Language, on the other hand, was designed for an easy
and gradual evolution from traditional mono-spaced text reports
("greenbar") to more complex formats.
(Side note: Donald Knuth, the inventor of TeX, was in the audience of a
presentation I did years ago at a Unicode conference, and actually came up
afterward and asked some questions about international character set
handling. I was a bit awestruck. He is also the author of a seminal series
of books on computer algorithms.)
Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.
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