From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding
Date: 1999/03/21
Date: 1999-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3860$gdu$1@news.interlog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36f1dd17.0@pfaff.ethz.ch
> ... which (presumably) proves TeX is better than Word at formulae
> ... Word, I suspect, is better than TeX at a great many things
> ... Experiment (hypothetical). Seat a ... secretary in front
> of a computer with ... LaTeX ...
doing complex formulae...
> the secretary resigns in tears.
Since I have done this experiment on numerous papers, theses,
computer programs, and charts, I would like to point out from
my experience that the secretary will resign in Word quicker
than in LaTex, and that less training is needed to do tables of
formulas in LaTex than in Word. However, in either language,
it takes a certain kind of desire to do technical typing,
and I often wind up doing the typing myself.
You are right, though, that a secretary can do a letter faster
in Word than in LaTex, but just imagine which the world would be
better without: letters or technical documents.
I have some Ada programs that use LaTex as the output language,
and it would be quite difficult to generate Word output. Even
using Microsoft Components, the format of the RTF (rich text
file) transfer file underneath the Microsoft Word format,
changes as the operating systems evolve.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 0:00 Looking for AWEB Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Mike Harrison
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Patrick Mérissert-Coffinières
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Martin Kew
1999-04-13 0:00 ` nospam!bob
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner [this message]
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
1999-03-25 0:00 ` FREDERICK LONG
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
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