Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx>]

On 10/01/12 00:20, Anton Aylward wrote:
> [...]
> Anything more than that and its an indicator you are more interested in
> the technology than the production of a book.
>
> And please also ignore anyone who recommends word processors or
> formatters, latex, docbooks, and other distraction.

That's your opinion, nothing more than that. Don't pretend to own the
truth. LaTeX is designed so an author can focus on the content and not on
the layout or other issues because that's automatically handled by the
typesetting system. Saying that somebody using LaTeX is more focussed on
technology than the production of a book is just plainly ignoring reality,
I'm afraid (I've written lots of papers and some books and book chapters
with LaTeX, so I know what I am talking about). I'm not here to convince
anybody of using LaTeX, certainly not if the task at hand is simply
sharing a few pages and not the production of a professionally looking
book. But LaTeX was definitely worth a shot given the original inquiry
which lacked some detail.

Thomas
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