On 16 Aug 00, at 10:48, Raffael Herzog wrote:
> I think emacs is a great front-end to LaTeX on the console. OK, using
> Emacs, You'll need to know LaTeX, but just take a look at the code LyX
> produces! It's quite simple.
> How would you show the different environments on the console? The best I
> could imagine would be: show the LaTeX code, because there are too many
> environments to format them uniquely on the console. And that's exactly
> what Emacs does.
Hi,
I would strongly disagree. The problem for me is not, that I would
not be _able_ to learn LaTeX, but rather that I do not _want_ to. I
perfectly know the LaTeX syntax (I have written couple of
documents using AUCTeX), but I do not want to be bothered by all
the codes, but I prefer clean text, which I can better concentrate on.
Another point is that I do not want to waste my time by looking up
all syntax stuff (all these questions for not-so-obvious issues -- "How
to make text blue?").
And concerning showing different environments -- many of them can
be shown directly (lists, sections etc.) and for the rest different
colours are perfectly OK. Have you ever had WordPerfect 5.1 for
DOS in your hands? Yes, I have no idea, how to show equations via
ncurses (is it possible to display some pictures via SVGAlib on
konsole?), but for most of my documents (I am a lawyer) it should
be perfectly sufficient.
Your opinion?
Have a nice day
Matej Cepl
