On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents.  I have frequent need
to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I
use grep for this purpose.  It is difficult for me to imagine an
advantage offered by OpenOffice which would compensate for the
inability to make use of grep in searching my archives.

I think it depends on what you're doing. TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. Using TeX for that is a bit like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of milk.




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