Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!bmacintyre
From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tools for writing manuals...
Message-ID: <10694@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 89 12:42:22 GMT
References: <1182@io.UUCP> <1485@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: UofW Computer Graphics Lab
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In article <1485@ndmath.UUCP> deh@ndmath.UUCP (David Hurtubise) writes:
>From article <1182@io.UUCP>, by bri@io.UUCP (Brian Shanblatt x3385):
>> [excellence! is]
>> ... Probably not good for writing manuals for publication, but
>I have to disagree.  I think it would do the job quite nicely.
>And you don't have to learn something as complicated as TeX.

So use LateX.  Why waste your time learning a variety of different tools
when learning something like LateX ( until you need the more-powerful base
tool, TeX ) will allow you to do all your text processing jobs?

It's not _that_ hard.

And I completely dissagree with you about Excellence! ( or any other wysiwyg
text processor on a micro ) - it is not appropriate for large documents.
Too slow.

In addition, a key thing to remember is that when using something like TeX
you get to use your favourite editor, a big plus in my book.


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