More LaTeX hate: BibTeX vs makeindex and the L-stroke character

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I'm writing up a thesis that makes references to "Łukasiewicz logic" and of course cites articles written by Łukasiewicz. BibTeX knows how to sort citations by author name: ..., L, Ł, M,... makeindex does not know how to handle non-ASCII characters. It sorts like this: Ł, A, B, C,... So I have t

Re: LaTeX hate

2007-04-16 Thread Peter da Silva
On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Hakim Cassimally wrote: A more general thing - why is the LaTeX parser so braindead? Because it's just a bleeding macro library, and so adds all manner of hate to the hatefulness that is TeX.

Re: LaTeX hate

2007-04-16 Thread Hakim Cassimally
On 15/04/07, Robert Rothenberg wrote: A more general thing - why is the LaTeX parser so braindead? The biggest error I keep on making is mismatching my \begin and \end tags. OK, LaTeX isn't HTML, so fair enough that it doesn't just plough on regardless and hope for the best. But given that th

LaTeX hate

2007-04-15 Thread Robert Rothenberg
So I write a paper with the following: \begin{table}\label{table:foo} \caption{Foo data} ... \end{table} and a little later... \begin{table}\label{table:bar} \caption{Bar data} ... \end{table} We examined foo (see Table \ref{table:foo}), then we examined bar (see Tab