Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: TeX vs Word Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 91 17:53:27 GMT References: <1991Jan15.031444.5@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1991Jan14.222837.20284@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan15.214938.13706@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jan16.135301.27836@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <17673@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 34 In-reply-to: higgin@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 16 Jan 91 16:12:31 GMT X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.12 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ] >>>>> On 16 Jan 91 16:12:31 GMT, higgin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Higginbottom - CATS) said: Paul> And just to add gasoline to the fire, I think comparing products like Paul> TeX and Word is futile because different folks like to work in different Paul> ways (programs like `vi' [which I also think has merit, by the way] are Paul> proof of this). Paul> I generate the prettiest memos in Commodore :-). TeX might seem massive Paul> overkill for memos, but I've developed all my own style tags over time Paul> and it's really very easy with \memo, \To, \Subject, etc. I do Paul> recognize that a lot of people can't deal with a discrepency between the Paul> way the screen looks (as they edit it) and what comes out of the Paul> printer. Personally, I think AmigaTeX's previewer is just great. One of the interesting things about GNU Emacs that I'm just now learning is that the INFO documentation on it is written in a form of TeX. I haven't used TeX myself yet (been overkill for what I've needed), but I find it interesting to see hypertext documentation for a program built-in to the program and yet you could run the documentation through a text processor and have a nice hierarchical document on the whole program. Anyone considered something like this in documenting their programs for the Amiga? It would be nice if their was a standard hypertext help system (like a standard file requestor) that new program developers could use to write their documentation with and users would see the same type of help environment on every program they use. Sort of a Thinker-type system where the developers use full Thinker and the users see a read-only, trimmed-down Thinker. -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"