On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:50:25PM +0200, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > Vittorio [debian-user] <15/07/03 18:12 +0000>: > > Has anyone of you debianists used the two typesetting systems? > > > > What are your impressions? > > > > Ciao > > Vittorio > > > > Sorry friends, I restate my question: > > I've been using latex and the likes (ConTeXt, LyX) satifactorily for a > couple of years. Could you please contrast it with lout that I don't > know at all? Any special advantage in using it? It was quite some time that I used lout, but I thought I'd answer this anyway ;) (La)TeX has nicer fonts in general, especially for mathematical formulae. It is however possible to use the TeX fonts with lout. I think lout is more free than LaTeX since the main documentation is free, this is a big plus point for a poor student. The free LaTeX documentation that is available is pretty good, and it is sufficient for most people I would guess, but if you need to make your own styles it becomes more difficult to get by with it. One nice thing with lout is that it uses postscript as its default output format. All this said I have to confess that by now I have converted totally to LaTeX, I bought two books and use it whenever I need to write something. /M -- Magnus Therning mailto:therning@sourceforge.natlab.research.philips.com PGP:0xD3BC7468 +31-40-2745179 http://pww.innersource.philips.com/magnus/ Nearly every electrical engineer believes deep in his heart that he is a better at writing computer programs than any computer programmer, and can show as proof the fact that he has written a number of small applications, each of which was done quickly, easily, and exactly met his needs.
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