Michael Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Yes, this is certainly true. ascii-to-xxx converters can certainly >> help you to write your first LaTeX document. However, they don't >> encourage to grow into that language at all, so to some extend they >> are a dead end. > > I disagree. It would give people an excellent foundation that they > can build upon, since they can examine the output from that publishing > routine to learn LaTeX. When they come across limitations of the > current LaTeX publishing implementation, they will search for > supplemental information. > > Don't get me wrong: I'm not proposing that anyone actually implement > this for Org, I'm just defending the hypothetical existence of such a > publisher.
I also think ascii-to-xxx converter can be useful as long as they stay as simple as ascii and provided they don't require anything new to learn. Otherwise there is no point in learning a new ascii syntax instead of directly learning LaTeX. Regards, -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
