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From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@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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