Le 02/10/2010 21:22, Alan Munn a écrit :
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.
And I'll add: printing a corpus with annotations that don't show up but
are fed to LuaTeX for statistics, and returned as tables. What I'm doing
right now. With reference from main work to example number, mention of
origin, etc.
At the very least, I'd concede TeX is not mandatory for linguistics, as
anything else, but ``inappropriate'' lets me wonder, and I'd require an
explanation, if transient trollism wasn't an option, as suggested by Alan.
Paul
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