Re: The Value of TEX
On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, butch wrote:
> hello,
> I am a newbie to linux and i keep hearing all of these postings to the
> groups about tex. my question is just how long would it take to be
> proficient and is the program really relevant at this period of time?
To produce simple documents (letters, reports, papers), you could learn
in about fifteen minutes, with a decent book (like "LaTeX: A Document
Preparation System" by Leslie Lamport, latex's author). Btw, if you're
going to learn tex, you'll probably want to concentrate on the LaTeX
dialect, and learn to use Emacs; it makes it much simpler in general.
To learn to do some of the niftier, high-end stuff, you could spend
years. It's like othello: A Minute to Learn, a Lifetime to Master.
Will
harpo@udel.edu
lowe@cis.udel.edu
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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