On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:45:13AM +0000, Ivan Fernandez wrote: > I guess you could say I use LaTeX "on a regular basis", I almost > finished writing my PhD dissertation in LaTeX..., also with emacs (and > the auctex package). > > LaTeX is great, but you have to be clear about something: it is not a > desktop publishing system. If you need careful control of layout, > forget about it. It works superbly well with well defined classes of > documents (papers, articles, etc.) if there is a LaTeX document class > written for them. Of course, my ideal would be an XML/SGML with a > proper semantic markup that one could later translate into printouts, > web material, etc. by means of a complete set of stylesheets. But > nobody seems to care about that, at least in the world of humanities > academia. LaTeX is just the thing that is working now and comes closer > to that.
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