Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, here's a problem. I *hate* when some dumb program tries to tell me > what my whitespaces should be. It may give me the tools to do the right > (from its POV) thing, but it should always give me enough rope.
1) LaTeX does give you enough rope. Enough to hang yourself, and more. 2) I suggest you listen to it when it tells you what your whitespaces should be. It does know better than you do, because it works according to the standards and best practices of the publishing world. For many years now publishing houses have been accepting LaTeX documents as print-ready, not requiring any further typesetting. LaTeX produces book-quality text, something that - oddly enough, given Bill's resources - Word is not able to do. It is trivial to see which document is set in LaTeX and which in Word just from a casual glance - the arrangement of whitespace makes the difference obvious to the naked eye. 3) I am not a LyX user myself, but I assume that since it is LateX inside, and hence TeX inside (item 2 above pertains to TeX, really), the above is applicable to LyX by and large. 4) As for your earlier comment about the time it takes to write in LaTeX, I guesstimate that, setting aside the difference in output quality and things that Word cannot do (e.g. math), nontrivial (enumerations, references, tables, etc) Word documents take me 5 to 10 times longer to write than LaTeX. Part of the reason is that LaTeX does the formatting stuff for me, and does it exceedingly well, and I can concentrate on the contents. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
