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When Don Knuth wrote TeX, the engine underlying LaTeX, he made sure that typesetting was a top priority. This includes all sorts of novel spacing, hyphenation,
by bdhe 11y ago
When Don Knuth wrote TeX, the engine underlying LaTeX, he made sure that typesetting was a top priority. This includes all sorts of novel spacing, hyphenation, and other algorithms. See some more examples here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Typesetting_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Typesetting_system
For anyone who appreciates Typography, there are few things out there that can produce aesthetic results as pleasing as LaTeX.
It does have its downsides though, no question, including a steep learning curve, unintuitive error msgs etc.
- cubix 11y agoLaTeX tables drive me crazy. There are tools to help, but for me, it's the least pleasant aspect of using it. Still beats Word masochism, however.
- singingfish 11y agoThe only thing I like about word is it's actually quite a good table composition tool. Just so long as you ignore the defaults that is.
- deerpig 11y agoOrg-mode has very good support for plain text tables -- which can be converted into multiple formats. Org-mode tables are pretty cool, bordering on being a spreadsheet... It's worth watching a demo, even if you never use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJVLJd_gz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTJVLJd_gz0
- frankzinger 11y agoAgreed, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to put tables with first-row headings and ones with first-column headings in the same file. Any ideas?
- singingfish 11y agoI've had a go at org mode being a die hard user, but never got past the original hump. Maybe I need something that better reflects my workflow, maybe disorg-mode.