On 13/02/2014, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> wrote: > e-letter wrote, > >>What control is lost in latex? > > Fair question, and I probably should have worded it better. Yes, with LaTeX, > > you can control everything, but (at least in my experience) the learning > curve to gain that control can be daunting. The GUI of LyX makes things > easier, but even then, if you want total control, you're mixing in raw TeX > commands with options selected from a menu, all the while throwing in a long > > list of preamble commands, all of which can take a long time to learn. The > point and click options in LO make things *so* much more accessible. Of > course, I'll be the first to admit that LO can't match the professional > final output of LaTeX, (especially with LaTeX's OSF font options and the > Microtype justification package), but it's getting closer, and certainly > acceptable for my purposes. > > So, to make matters easier, when using LaTeX, I try to stick with the its > default formatting, which results in a (voluntary) loss of control. >
OK, fair enough but as a latex user, was amazed to read a claim that LO provides greater control! :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
