Please, please take this discussion off this list. This is not the appropriate forum for it.
Dominik On 30 September 2010 10:50, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschu...@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Tobias bist du des Wahnsinns!! (Sorry, Tobias way over-board here) > > I hate to say this nobody actually needs TeX&Co Nowadays. (See my next > post) > Not to say that they are the better system for doing things. > > TeX et al is for typesetting, layout and publishing that is its sole > purpose! It was designed when you could not do alot of things with > a computer easily. > > The content of a TeX-document is irrelevant. > > As far a structuralism is concerned, it is a obsolete concept in this > modern world. Though, I agree that logic and good problem sovling > skills are important and are not hardly taught anymore. > > regards (MfG) > Keith. > > Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > > > Hi, > > > > there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co: > > - those who absolutely need TeX, because no other system let's them > produce the documents they have to (all this linguistis and co. [don't take > offense, I have no idea of the professions around this topic]) > > - those who can use other systems but who would have an enourmous > advantage in time and effort using TeX (mathematicians, other scientist, > typographers of some kind [see above], ...) > > > > and now the important part > > > > - those who should think structurally (does this word exist?), when > creating a text document. and that's nearly everybody who creates a text > document other than a greeting or similar. > > > > To state it clearly: > > > > Every high school student, who wants to continue to university (in > Germany: jeder Gymnasialschüler) should learn TeX&Co. in order to _think_ > _structurally_. > > > > It's not about programming vs. using. (I myself don't do anything plain > TeX. I use packages and create new commands only as placeholders.) It's > about the order in which to create a document: > > 1. content > > 2. structure > > 3. revise 1&2 > > 4. layout > > > > MS Word&Co. proposes another order: > > 1. content and layout mixed. > > 2. structure > > 3. revision (nearly impossible for large documents if its harder than > using replace) > > Btw: Is the table of contents in word still created from layout forms? > > > > bye Toscho > > > > PS: The high school, where I teach (better: learn teaching) will begin to > teach LaTeX to the grade-10-students of its STEM-branch. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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