Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:45:13AM +0000, Ivan Fernandez wrote:
> I guess you could say I use LaTeX "on a regular basis", I almost
> finished writing my PhD dissertation in LaTeX..., also with emacs (and
> the auctex package).
>
> LaTeX is great, but you have to be clear about something: it is not a
> desktop publishing system. If you need careful control of layout,
> forget about it. It works superbly well with well defined classes of
> documents (papers, articles, etc.) if there is a LaTeX document class
> written for them. Of course, my ideal would be an XML/SGML with a
> proper semantic markup that one could later translate into printouts,
> web material, etc. by means of a complete set of stylesheets. But
> nobody seems to care about that, at least in the world of humanities
> academia. LaTeX is just the thing that is working now and comes closer
> to that.
Maybe you would like lout?
David
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