On 9/10/2010 9:18 AM, Tobias Schoel wrote:
Hello everybody,
some remarks from a happily xelatex-using maths and physics teacher
who has just finished university:
When someone arrives at xelatex he has usually gone some way through
the tex/latex world already. (Mostly latex, I think.) You can safely
suppose that he has read and used:
- lshort
- one latex book (companion, texbook, ...)
- some further tutorials and package documentations he needed
Assumptions are bad science =)
I can't say I ever actually read lshort, for instance, and I personally
jumped straight into xelatex because the internet told me it was the
only unicode-aware flavour of TeX, making the choice ridiculously easy.
The only thing I used at the time to "get up to speed" as it were was
the wikibook on latex. and that stopped being useful relatively quickly
when I discovered big or long tables in latex were ridiculous to typeset
nicely.
If we end up writing good enough documentation, someone doesn't have to
arrive to xelatex "from" another flavour - they'll have been told to use
xelatex by their friends and colleagues already, so writing it now with
an eye to the future would be good policy.
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
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