On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel:
Hi,
there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co:
- those who absolutely need TeX, because no other system let's them
produce the documents they have to (all this linguistis and co.
[don't take offense, I have no idea of the professions around this
topic])
Please elaborate on why they should use TeX. Personally I think that
TeX is quite inappropriate for linguistics.
I'm not sure that this discussion should really continue, but what do
you know about linguistics that would give you such an opinion? LaTeX
is very appropriate for linguistics, and many working linguists are
using it (not to mention that it is used to typeset various
linguistics journals.) As I mentioned in a previous message it
provides many concrete advantages: automatic numbering/referencing of
linguistic examples, automatic aligning of foreign language words/
translations, automatic syntactic tree drawing; a full range of logic
symbols, easy access to phonetic fonts etc., not to mention other
basic academic requirements such as citations and bibliographies.
Doing most of this in Word is either not trivial or not possible.
- those who can use other systems but who would have an enourmous
advantage in time and effort using TeX (mathematicians, other
scientist, typographers of some kind [see above], ...)
Again, why do they have an advantage of using TeX?
People who need lots of mathematics should preferably use Word
because it offers the highest quality of math typesetting.
Which Word have *you* been using? Even if the latest version of Word
for Windows (not Mac) offers improved math typesetting (which is
debatable), it any previous version of Word certainly doesn't.
TeX engines are currently striving to achieving Word's level of
quality.
Now you're starting to sound like a troll, (even though I know you're
not.)
Alan
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Alan Munn
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