Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!bmaraldo From: bmaraldo@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Questions about TeX Message-ID: <1047@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Date: 11 Feb 90 18:34:04 GMT References: <38.25cdb349@lne.kth.se> <3554@tahoe.unr.edu> Reply-To: bmaraldo@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) Organization: Unit 36 Research Lines: 36 In article bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.Edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes: >In article <3554@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck) writes: > ....... >> IMHO TeX + postscript beats almost all the of the so-called >> DTP's available commercially... and it's (almost)FREE! >i agree completely. my biggest complaint with all the wysiwyg type programs >is "what you see is ALL you get" (ie. no extensibility, very limited >customization possibilities, and too much clickity-clacking with the >mouse to do anything useful.). I love TeX, for doing text typesetting. I think that TeX is great for doing papers and what-not but for signs and newsletter type publications a WYSIWYG is best. I use TeX for doing my academic papers and Calamus for doing newsletters and signs. It is not trivial to move blocks of text around in TeX, leaving appropriate room for graphics and what-not. A WYSISYG allows you to visualize the placement of layout objects and include (visually!) graphics in your documents. Althought TeX can do this it is a non-triavial task that is handled better with a WYSIWYG, such as Calamus. Mind you, it takes TeX about 30 sec to print a 300dpi page and Calamus about 3 min! TeX has its uses; it does *text typesetting in solid blocks* much better than a WYSIWYG and a DTP is suited better to layout type tasks. Comparing a DTP to TeX is really like comparing apples and oranges - each is designed for different purposed (TeX for typesetting, DTPs for layout). As a side note, I prefer the Computer Mondern fonts to, say, Times Roman. Many people argue with me about this... Brett L Maraldo -- -------- Unit 36 Research --------- "Alien Technology Today" bmaraldo@watserv1.UWaterloo.ca {uunet!clyde!utai}!watserv1!bmaraldo