On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:02:34AM EDT, Russell Bateman wrote: > As you say, warning: off-topic post. Read at your own risk.
.. don't see this as OT.. Being lazy I skipped the ".. in Vim" in the subject.. > > This discussion underlines all the more strongly why I don't attempt to > produce final documents using vim: I sometimes use an actual word > processor like Open Office Writer, but mostly I write in HTML and, of > course, the best HTML editor on the planet is... Maybe I should dump LaTeX and use HTML.. I printed some of the TeX-gen'd stuff and it just looks too "beautiful".. I end up with correspondence that looks more like pages torn out of an expensive book.. > > ...vim! > agreed.. natch'.. > Russ > > P.S. Yes, typing é , œ and ü is painful, but I'm one > of those perfectionists who would have used half-spacing back in the old > days if I had been in need of such things. My father used a non-electric > typewriter, but I was 19 before I moved to France from the US and needed > what wasn't on the keyboard. After coming back at 25 (some 26+ years ago > now), I never lost the need to communicate and product documents of with > accents, digraphs, etc. yes.. have a feeling only the folks at the "Académie Française" and enlightened foreigners are really concerned about this these days.. I'm sure the French don't take notice or give a damn whether you write "laetitia" or "lætitia".. Hope you get my accents.. cedillas.. and "e dans l'a" above.. > in fact, I added the need to compose classical > Greek texts while in France, but that's a whole other mess. > [..] Thanks cga
