On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:35:15AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, that amount of > > precision doesn't really matter. > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't > care how ugly their printed documents look. They accept what they are > used to accept. When they are told about LaTeX, they fear the effort > that might be involved in getting used to create documents in a > different way and don't take the time to have a closer look. They also > don't take the time to even ponder about the possibility that LaTeX's > concept of separating structure, content and layout would boost their > productivity in the long run or not. And they know that within their > ranks they stick with the majority and thus can't be wrong. > > In this way, talking to M$ word users about LaTeX is just about the same > as talking to M$ O$ users about linux or debian. They might struggle > with some of the shortcomings, but their pain is not big enough to leave > the mainstream and to dare the move to another way of working.
If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team report. :-( There are a lot of maschoists out there. If I see someone manage to successfully accomplish a risky task for Windows, like print a report, with more than four pages, over a network I think they deserve a pat on the back. No, some people thrive on that "Extreme Risk" factor and would probably die of boredom running Linux. Me, I'm a lazy bastard, and my body can't handle the stress of running Windows. -- Chris. ====== Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
