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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: Ruud Harmsen
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:22:09 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.lang
31 Aug 2006 06:08:31 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>> ANY reader? No, the technically competent and skilled translator.
>
>Hunh? What does "technically competent and skilled translator" have to
>do with users of word processors? Why should a scholar of, say,
>Spenser's epic poetry be "technically competent" in programming LaTeX?

Because they want some control over the structure of what they write?
Should an author write an endless list of sentences without any
structure, and have someone else make it presentable?

As I understand it (but I know very little about Latex), in Latex you
specifiy logical structural elements, but not how they should actually
look. The latter is handled in style sheets. 

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