Re: Tool for document management
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David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote:
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>> David Brodbeck writes:
>>> TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're
>>> writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited.
>>
>> Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick
>> up a
>> bottle of milk.
>
> Depends on your perspective, I guess. It just feels like by the time I
> get all the preliminary verbiage TeX needs typed out, I could have
> written the whole letter in OO. Also, looking at my copy of 'The Not So
> Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's not clear to me what document class
> I'd use. They're all going to be a bit clumsy and inappropriate. It's
> not an "article", it's not a "report", and it's certainly not a "book"...
>
And given what's going on in TeX (let alone LaTeX) behind the scenes, OO, when used to typeset a single letter, might prove to be a somewhat
smaller truck :)
Sarunas
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