Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Of course you are free to use whatever seems suitable to you. But don't
>> take it personal, when people advise you to do otherwise.
>
> It is personal when I state quite emphatically that I do not feel it is
> the best tool for me, personally. At that point any reply stating that I am
> wrong is personal because I have stated it is *ME*, not the tool, that is at
> issue.
I hope I didn't state that you are wrong, that's not my intention.
- From my personal experience LaTeX *is the tool* when it comes to
> o version might be nice in case I want to back out of large portions of the
> document or refer to previous verbage I had removed and want to reconsider.
and
> Am I writing a book? Yes.
Any solution with (Open)-office tools that tries to satisfy those two of
your requirements will be impractical and cumbersome, as far as I know.
If you want *efficient* management of longer texts and versioning, I
guess you should learn LaTeX or one of LaTeX's wysiwygish interfaces.
It's not as difficult as you seem to think. (texmacs uses F5 for
italics, so it's even one key less than OOo's ctrl-i).
Johannes
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