Re: gEDA-user: gEDA Wikibook ?

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 15:13 +0100, Karl Hammar wrote:
> Stefan Salewski:
> > On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 10:43 +0100, Armin Faltl wrote:
> > > of making. But why not a real book, that is written in LaTeX?
> > 
> > LaTeX is fine for a thesis and text books, with many formulas, intended
> > to be printed and viewed as PDF.
> > 
> > For other documentation more versatile formats (with LaTeX backed) are
> > better. ...
> 
> I've done music scores with Latex and Lilypond, and I usually don't
> produce pdf's except for others, I'm more at home with postscript;
> so I claim that your assertion is false.
> 
> Lilypond itself is using texinfo for documentation though.
> 
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
> 

I am familiar with LaTeX, I still write my letters with it.

But i see that most modern, versatile documentation (outside of the
academic world) is not written in LaTeX in these days, and I guess there
are some reasons...

PostScript: Indeed, initially I preferred PostScript over PDF -- PDF was
very close bound to Adobe, and one advantage of PostScript is that it is
readable ASCII text. But PDF allows searching and hyperlinks, and today
many people can not open PostScript documents.




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