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Here's some free advice: never mistake rudeness for intolerance of utter nonsense. But, ok, I read your post again: You: "The primary goal of TeX is 'to allow
by logjam 18y ago
Here's some free advice: never mistake rudeness for intolerance of utter nonsense.
But, ok, I read your post again:
You: "The primary goal of TeX is 'to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort'. IT IS CLEARLY BUGGY, AS IT CERTAINLY HAS FAILED AT THAT GOAL."
Wikipedia: "Many THOUSANDS of books have been published using TeX, INCLUDING books published by Addison-Wesley, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press and Springer..."
And here: found in 30 seconds of time spent in Google, are some excerpts of descriptions of what a few other people use Tex for (http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/:
"This is a set of maps that I made for the frontispiece of a bound volume of my mother's journals that she wrote during a sailing trip in the Greek islands..."
"It's a poster I made for presenting at a linguistics conference. I was wary about trying to do something like this with LaTeX at my level, but I was astonished at how easy it turned out to be..."
"As an experiment, I typeset the second chapter of the book of Esther from the Hebrew Bible. "
This is an example of how well TeX can be adapted to all different languages, even typesetting from right to left
"I'm attaching two files that use the CJK package to typeset Chinese. "
"A piece of Tibetan text which describes the Story of a Brahman and his family."
"Another fine typesetting example showing how well TeX can produce beautiful books. It is created with the ConTeXt package."
"Inclusion of these submissions in the TeX showcase might be helpful for biologists to venture into learning LaTeX, once they understand what they can do with this wonderful software. I made these figures for an article that was published in The PracTeX Journal."
"This Master's Thesis has no math at all. This is my Master's Thesis for sociology..."
"...from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kazuko"
"Here are a few pages of 352 from a chess book...Typesetting was done by PDFLaTeX..."
"The book is Exiles from a Future Time by Alan M. Wald, University of North Carolina Press. The design is by Richard Eckersley, whose achievements in book design have earned him the designation of Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts..."
"This is a document that introduces Early Music to all audiences..."
"A Music example submitted by Norbert Preining. This is from the Andante KV 315, W.A. Mozart, transcription from D. Taupin..."
"An example of a catalog entry automatically created from a vendor's database. You can find it among around 800 siblings at www.erco.com"
"From a critical edition of Saranadeva's Durghatavrtti, in Sanskrit..."
"These two pages are taken from the Greek edition of Giambattista Bodoni's Manuale Typographico (published by Agra, in 2003), a landmark in the history of typography..."
"A page from the book Mikael by Theophan�s Ioannou, published in Greece by Indiktos (May 2003)."
"A page from the journal Inscriptiones graecae..."
"A text in Judeo-spanish, from The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Chapbooks of Yacob Abaraham Yon..."
Now let me ask once again, what did I miss? I'm interested in you citing people who have failed to publish their book(s) because of TeX' failings...or was it "bugs"?
- nailer 18y ago> Here's some free advice: never mistake rudeness for intolerance of utter nonsense. To prove my post nonsense, you'd have to have come up with some supporting arguments against it, which your post did not. You're still rude. The caps are unnecessary. If your argument was strong enough, you wouldn't need either. Sure, there are people who use TeX. I didn't say they weren't any. Crapflooding Hacker News to prove some people use TeX doesn't prove that most people can use TeX. If you still don't get it: * Submit your school work in TeX * Submit your resume in TeX. * Visit a magazine publisher and ask what they use for layout * Write a book. Submit it in TeX. Some places may still accept it. They are by far the minority. When you're done, check out http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, particularly the 'In Comments' section.
- nailer 18y agoSorry, folks: if Google remained a URL at Stanford for use by geeks only, I wouldn't consider it a success. If Ubuntu never fixes goal #1, and particularly if it never fixed things stopping that goal, I wouldn't consider it a success. TeX never achieved it's stated goal of allowing anyone to create typeset documents, and I don't consider it a success. You may now return to digg and stop invading HN. <sacredcow>
- davidw 18y agoI think that TeX is a success, but that you would be very accurate to say that perhaps it has fallen short of what it could have been.
- gecko 18y agoActually, I don't think I've seen such a concerted, well-focused troll since I left reddit. My hat's off to you, sir.
- nailer 18y agoIf you think caring about usability is a troll, I pity your users.