Am 02.10.2010 um 21:52 schrieb Paul Isambert: > Le 02/10/2010 21:22, Alan Munn a écrit : >> On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: >> >>> 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]) >>> >>> Please elaborate on why they should use TeX. Personally I think that TeX is >>> quite inappropriate for linguistics. >> >> I'm not sure that this discussion should really continue, but what do you >> know about linguistics that would give you such an opinion? LaTeX is very >> appropriate for linguistics, and many working linguists are using it (not to >> mention that it is used to typeset various linguistics journals.) As I >> mentioned in a previous message it provides many concrete advantages: >> automatic numbering/referencing of linguistic examples, automatic aligning >> of foreign language words/translations, automatic syntactic tree drawing; a >> full range of logic symbols, easy access to phonetic fonts etc., not to >> mention other basic academic requirements such as citations and >> bibliographies. Doing most of this in Word is either not trivial or not >> possible. > > And I'll add: printing a corpus with annotations that don't show up but are > fed to LuaTeX for statistics, and returned as tables. What I'm doing right > now. With reference from main work to example number, mention of origin, etc. > > At the very least, I'd concede TeX is not mandatory for linguistics, as > anything else, but ``inappropriate'' lets me wonder, and I'd require an > explanation, if transient trollism wasn't an option, as suggested by Alan.
Well, I hope you accept lack of information as valid reason. I'm not a linguist and don't know much about the exact requirements in that field, but I haven't seen much LaTeX usage outside of the world of math and natural science, that's why I was a bit surprised. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
