Re: gEDA-user: OT: Latex

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

gene glick wrote:
> Do you all use Latex for editing docs, or maybe open office or other? 
> I'm getting fed up with the open office bugs and starting to think that 
> Latex is a better alternative.  Busy compiling Lyx as we speak.
>
> Just curious if it works out well-


I switched to LaTeX 15 years ago and have never looked back.  mmmmmmm 
LaTeX.

\begin{shamelessplug}
You may also want latex-mk available at http://latex-mk.sf.net
\end{shamelessplug}

I have never bothered with Lyx.  Since switching to LaTeX I have used it 
for class handouts, a thesis, a book, a couple of journal papers, many 
letters, memos, technical documents, and more.  The ability to collect 
data and get it formatted in a programming fashion and the ability 
control it all via a makefile has been a huge benefit to me.

Before switching I was a die hard word user.  I'd actually taken the 
time to read the entire manual and felt like I qualified as an expert 
user of it.  But I finally hit a point where it just wasn't working well 
for a bunch of reasons (bugs, poor scaling to large documents, poor 
multi-author support, poor interaction with cvs or other source control 
system, poor/no interaction with other scripting, and more).  I'm sure 
some of those things are different now, but you couldn't pay me to 
switch back.

-Dan



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