I agree. LaTeX is well worth learning and learning well (it produces exquisite matter). After all, you are a student of linguistics. You started somewhere, didn't you? You mastered the IPA symbols and their use and pronunciation which is more than I can do who barely speak my own (English-American) language well. You need a TEXT, yes! Study it!
Bart Alberti Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Jordan wrote: > >> I might be able to learn TeX if there were actual hands-on classes >> with instructors to show me step by step how to do it. But the online >> documentation is hopeless for me. I couldn't understand even the >> first sentence. I would have to ask a question online for each >> paragraph of the instructions and then wait several days for someone >> to answer it. I'd be dead before I figured it out to the level you >> have achieved. My brain is not equal to yours. >> >> > Like Christoph was saying, you really need a *text* on LaTeX. The > online stuff is only going to be useful as a quick reference when you > already know what you're doing, you just forgot the syntax or tag. > > What I have done over the years is create some example files in LaTeX > to accomplish various conceptual ideas, which I modify or just get a > quick reminder about how to do various things. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
