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In article <1156978329.846377.188470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Peter T.
Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
...
> > Does it need to? Any text editor, including Word, can be used to edit
> > text.
>
> But, as you-all inform me, much of the "text" gotten from LaTeX will be
> control codes and other such programming.
There is a basic difference between a word-processor and TeX/LaTeX. And
that is what makes converting one to the other so difficult. In a
word-processor you do the layout by hand, look at your screen whether
it is good enough, and that is that. When printing it at a resolution
much higher than your screen resolution, sometimes the results can be
pretty bad.
On the other hand, TeX/LaTeX is a typesetting language. You tell it
how the document should look and it will look like you told it once
printed. It may look horrible when you preview it on a windowing
system that does not know about anti-aliassing, but once printed it
looks good. There is even no problem get out of it A3 or A2 posters
just as you wanted (but your preview will always be pretty bad).
D. E. Knuth has typeset quite a few books with this system. (Although
I still think his Computer Modern font is horrible.)
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