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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: Lee Sau Dan
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:40:03 +0800
Newsgroups: sci.lang
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> Does it need to? Any text editor, including Word, can be used
    >> to edit text.

    Peter> But, as you-all inform me, much of the "text" gotten from
    Peter> LaTeX will be control codes and other such programming. Do
    Peter> you now expect any random reader to be able to deal with
    Peter> all that junk cluttering up their text?  (Using the j-word
    Peter> as a technical term, akin to Edward Tufte's "chartjunk.")

Your wrong.  Much  of the text in a LaTeX manuscript  is the body text
of the document.  The markups are very sparse.


Have you ever seen a LaTeX  manuscript?  If not, then shut up.  You've
been continually demonstrating your ignorance and stubbornness.


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