Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:22:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WYSIWYG word processor needed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291316470.18843-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991026111315.30516@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Hi Greg,
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Control information should be visible and intelligible. TeX codes are
> visible but not intelligible. SGML codes are visible and, once you've
> learnt 5 layers of abstractions, intelligible. Personally I prefer
> [gt]roff, which falls somewhere in between.
Just as a counter point, I personally find TeX codes fairly intelligible
(in particular LaTeX - I never use plain ol' TeX anymore). Some examples
(lord knows there are nonintelligible codes, but....):
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{some-darn-figure.jpg}
\end{figure}
\begin{trivlist}
\item blah blah blah
\end{trivlist}
\begin{center}
blah centered text blah
\end{center}
Haven't ever messed w/ [gt]roff and from what I've seen there's not much
difference in SGML coding as compared to TeX. The LaTeX math mode stuff
_can_ be confusing if you're using complicated math symbols/equations, but
it's still pretty straight-forward IMO - mostly it's just like you would
code numerical things in Fortran/C/etc. There are also lots of nice tools
for TeX and its cousins which I mentioned sometime earlier in this thread.
Brett
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