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Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> 31 Aug 2006 06:08:31 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
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> >> 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?
An author should simply do what authors have been doing at least since
the Renaissance: dividing their essay into paragraphs, and including
hierarchically organized headings if the text is more than a few pages.
Outline style is taught from third grade (age 8 or so) over here; you
don't need a computer program to organize your writing.
> 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.
Or, you can type I. A. 1. a. i. (a). and let the book's editor and
designer worry about whether to change it to 1.1.1.1.1.1, or to do it
exclusively by formatting, or whatever.
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