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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: Lee Sau Dan
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:17:54 +0800
Newsgroups: sci.lang
>>>>> "Ruud" == Ruud Harmsen <realemailonsite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >>  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?

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

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

Right!

Indeed,  most  LaTeX  users  do  not  write code.   They  only  go  to
newsgroups or read  HOWTOs to find out the packages  that do what they
want, and then use those packages.


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