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The author doesn't like writing using markup languages. Some of the rest of us do. I'm with him to the extent that LaTeX evangelism can be oversold - when I'm
by pmyteh 9y ago
The author doesn't like writing using markup languages. Some of the rest of us do.
I'm with him to the extent that LaTeX evangelism can be oversold - when I'm talking to curious colleagues I tend to stress the vertical learning curve as much as the quality typesetting and convenient cross-referencing - but I do think most of his argument is simply a matter of personal preference.
For me, the fairly stiff default structure imposed by a LaTeX document class makes my writing easier, quite apart from any advantages at the publishing stage.
- stephen_g 9y ago> For me, the fairly stiff default structure imposed by a LaTeX document class makes my writing easier, quite apart from any advantages at the publishing stage. True, and if you write a lot of documentation or articles that require similar formatting, it's actually not that hard once you understand LaTeX to set up your own class that builds on one of the built in ones to make things look nicer or work in slightly different ways. You can get really nice, consistent documents without doing any extra formatting work.