Re: Software For Book Writing
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:57:10AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:30:07PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I think you can use a versioning system to merge latex files (since they
> > are plain text) Editing a LaTex file is straight-forward for anybody
> > with half a clue.
>
> That is a bit unfair. TeX/LaTeX is not that straight-forward and has a
> rather steep learning curve. (Still wondering how to put "[1]" (without
> the quotes) in a plain text TeX file.)
I said "editing", as in changing a sentence here or there. Sure,
writing it from scratch is difficult at first but just altering an
existing file is simple. Try doing that with ODF if you don't have OO.
(or .doc if you don't have OO or Word).
Doug.
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