Robert Memering said the following at 05/26/2006 12:22 AM : > Am Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2006 16:34 schrieb D. R. Evans: >> I think I shall be going with plain TeX, since that is what I know >> best and I am pretty sure that I can get out of any trouble I get >> myself into. > > I don't really understand why *plain* TeX? Using the right > documentclass and packages you can be very flexible with (PDF)LaTeX, > and the code is a lot easier to edit and maintain.
Probably just personal preference. I have used LaTeX for projects a few times and almost (but not quite) every time I've finished the project thinking, "Next time I'll go back to plain TeX". Maybe it's just that I know how to do stuff in TeX and I find the TeXbook simply a wonderful piece of documentation, whereas with LaTeX it always seems to take a non-negligible amount of time to hunt down packages, figure out how they work, work around bugs, that kind of thing. TeX has the not-to-be-disdained characteristic of being perhaps the closest thing to a bug-free program that exists, as well as being extremely well documented. But maybe I'm just rationalising. Maybe it's just that I simply like it. Doc
