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> I wish people would try TeX out first as well. You literally type stuff and a paragraph comes out. Enter a blank line to separate paragraphs. It can't be much
by beefhash 9y ago
> I wish people would try TeX out first as well. You literally type stuff and a paragraph comes out. Enter a blank line to separate paragraphs. It can't be much easier.
This may be because raw TeX is not very google-able, whereas large amounts of guides exist for LaTeX in particular. The best resource for it seems to be the TeXbook, which seems to still be in print and not freely available.
Side note: This is one of the reasons why I'm personally somewhat partial to troff, be it heirloom-doctools or groff. Many great resources, introductionary or otherwise, are freely available on the Internet at no cost, such as UNIX Text Processing and the introductions to the ms macros, eqn and tbl in the UNIX V7 manual volume 2A.
- cup-of-tea 9y agotroff/groff seems attractive to me, but can it achieve the same level of quality is TeX? When it comes to typesetting I'm not prepared to sacrifice quality for convenience and TeX seems to offer a reasonable compromise here.
- beefhash 9y agoStraight up: No, it can't. It will blow MS Word and LibreOffice out of the water. It can get close to TeX, but very noticeably eqn(1) is inferior to math mode. Table of contents generation and putting it at the top of the document is still not happening.