Am 30.09.2010 um 16:01 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > With Tex et al. the structure/formatting commands are in document verbatim. > When using TeX et al. you are more aware of what you are doing
I don't know if that is really true. It's relatively easy to find out the current style of a character/paragraph in a Word document. > The only thing Tex et al. gives you is more flexibility and makes it easier > to change > style and page metrics as compared to Word. Why that? You can edit page metrics in Word without much effort, and you can also have elaborate document templates. > Most users in Word do not bother with creating custom styles and enforcing > their > use. Even when groups have to collaborate and have to adhere to a style. > The problems start when they try to bring things together. Now, if they had > taken > the time to create a style and distributed to the others there would be > problems, if > the format had to be changed. > > With TeX et. al. you basically use styles naturally and adhere to them. I don't agree. Why it should be more natural to write \section instead of \Large\bfseries. That's not more natural than applying the first-level heading style to a paragraph in Word. > But, in a group if somebody does not or decides to start modifying commands > you get > similar problems as above. I seen happen all to often and trying top get a > decent > document was one hell of a job and the end the end document was put together > piecemeal. This seems to be more of a project management problem, and not related to TeX or Word. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
