Neil Watson wrote: > With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use > the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. > There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with > Word and OpenOffice.
To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. One of my
main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure
they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since
an outside editor is required it is my impression that there is no WYSIWYG, no
way to get a basic view of how it might look printed outside of actually doing
whatever magic it is to send it off to a printer. Which I don't have.
Also the end result of my labor will be to send this out to be published.
I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed
out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX. So without a printer I am stuck with
transforming what I want into an acceptable format and plain text won't so. I
am using some formatting. Nothing fancy, noting that will cause formatting
inconsistencies. But just enough that plain text is unacceptable.
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Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?
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