- From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh@usa.net>
- Date: 13 Jun 99 01:09:26 MDT
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
Pierre Wargnier <pierre@kerlaran.rotary.studenthem.gu.se> wrote, using a phony email address: > Learn to type LaTeX without WYSIWYG. You will avoid the hasle of > finding an editor and that not that hard. And for me I foud easier to > write \section{title} than to search in menus and try to find what is > wrong with the vertical spaces and other things. LaTeX is like HTML, > easier, because you have not to work around the mess things between IE > and NC. It's ASCII and not binary? Even still, you want to be able to preview it while you're working on it. For that you at least need a TeX viewer/browser. And unlike HTML I don't see a gazillion Web sites with tutorials and documentation and guides to the syntax and the like. > Realy you should not fear plein text, it just like writing an email and > putting few things like \begin{thebibliography} in it ;) Sounds okay, if only there were easy-to-find and easy-to-understand documentation on the format, plus a viewer/browser... > Scientist don't have always Linux but they can have UNIX (computers > existed before MS :) Like workstations and that. Well, that depends. Big universities often have a Unix network set up, often Linux nowadays on a batch of PII 200s or something. But strapped-for-cash students and mathematicians don't always have access to that kind of stuff, and you won't believe what a hassle it's been for me trying to get a hold of a Red Hat CD-ROM. It's like the guys that produce/distribute it have the crazy notion that every Tom, Dick, and Harry has their own car and the kind of income that covers the cost of petrol... By the way Mr. Wargnier, it's quite rude to send mail with a phony return address. It was quite annoying for me to get the bounce informing me that there's no such host as the machine you claimed to be from, and then have to resend my reply to the whole mailing list so that you'll see it... Plus it exposes everyone on the mailing list to yet another post on a thread that has veered quite far from being related to Amaya... ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
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