LaTeX can do way, way more than math and text layout. My favorite example:
https://mathvault.ca/wp-content/uploads/fancy-latex-output.png That isn't a photoshopped collage of different LaTeX creations. The diagrams, the overlays and the fading is all created with LaTeX into that single image. Erich On Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 18:24, Sam Hansen eloquently inscribed: > I agree with Steve on this. LaTeX is just a markup language for mathematical > content. for most written things it is overkill, and there are definitely > projects > like the more XML based PreTeXt that offer huge improvements over vanilla > LaTeX implementations. But LaTeX does what it does, hyper specific typeset > and math, it does very well. It also is capable of some interesting > accessibility > things such as a nemeth braille output that it has over WYSISYG editors. > > Sam > >> On Jul 20, 2023, at 17:19, McDonald, Stephen <steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu> >> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more > concerned with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", "this > is a > footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", "this is a > sidebar > note". The actual style that is used for a title, a footnote, or a quotation > block > is defined separately, and layout on a page is done in end-processing. I > don't > see any way you could separate those format blocks from the text to be > blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you? >> >> Steve McDonald >> steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu >> >> Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> On Behalf Of Stuart wrote on >> eates: >>> LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts: >>> formats conceived and developed prior to the software development >>> insight that separation of content and code need to be separate. >>> >>> Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and >>> style, but way back when, there wasn't even a consensus for the split >>> between content and code. >>> >>> cheers >>> stuart >>
