From: jjlawren@garfield.uwaterloo.ca (Jay Lawrence - DCS) Subject: Re: Linux - the future? Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:05:48 GMT
This reminds me of the typical: "Mine program is better than yours, because!"
;-)
Actually I have found in my (limited) experience that TeX is a very powerful and
predictable package. With that power comes a fairly steep learning curve! This
is where you would loose many of the casual users (ie/ the person writing a memo
or two durning the day) but people in more sizable projects such as writing a
book would find TeX (and macro packages) very appropriate....it is contextual, eh?
You will find certain Secretaries using TeX on a variety of platforms because that
is what is needed for their position...TeX is the most logical (IMHO!) way to
typeset mathematics....just grab a math tex, you'll see that a significant number
of them are typeset with TeX.
If one is writing a 'straightforward' document then it could really be a judgement
call as to which is better....and WYSIWYG? Well, I think that we demand it too
much and can be a bit on the distracting side....
Anyway, TeX, and LaTeX, etc, and be really quite easy to use if you have some basic
actions set up to make the dvi, xdvi, and print it out...this could simply be
placed in a simple menu of some sort...voila...instant text processor...sort of...
Hopefully there will be a number of choices...I'll take LaTeX, thanks, but you
may wish to have a WYSIWYG system...fine! I hope it can be offered! It might
be neat quick notes, eh?
Regards,
Jay