Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sundance!jac From: jac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: TeX [was: Mac's Microsoft Word] Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 91 07:40:18 GMT References: <1991Jan15.031444.5@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1991Jan14.222837.20284@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan15.214938.13706@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jan15.230528.8033@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: sundance.llnl.gov rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > TeX is hard to learn? Isn't \section,\title,\author, etc intuitive enough? > What person of average intelligence can not look at \section{Introduction} > and guess what it means? I'm glad atleast you don't believe Word is the god > of WP's. \section, \title, etc., are indeed easy to learn but they aren't TeX, they're LaTeX. LaTeX is a very large set of TeX macros which hide TeX's complicated machinery. I use LaTeX for most everything and, indeed, I find it just as easy to use as most word processors. However if you ever need to change a style, introduce a new font family, etc., then you have to know TeX, and it *ain't* easy. Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- James A. Crotinger Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab // The above views jac@gandalf.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808; L-630 \\ // are mine and are not (415) 422-0259 Livermore CA 94550 \\/ necessarily those of LLNL.