Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, because in this case: > - you cannot study how the document was done; > - you cannot (conveniently) modify the document. > > Writing LaTeX code is comparable to programming, and what is good for > usual software is also good for LaTeX code, most of the times.
Note that when I compile your program I'll get a different binary. My binary will be linked with different libraries and use the configuration on my machine. Your source code is not "portable" in the sense you're using to describe your typeset documents. In fact "portable" means pretty much the opposite of how you're using it when used to describe source code for programs. It refers to source code that will work in different environments because it doesn't hard code assumptions about the environment. Source code that *doesn't* need to be hand modified when taken to a new platform. What good would it be to ship your source code to me with my x86 processor if it's still going to compile to PPC code when I compile it? I may as well have received the binary. Likewise I have no A4 paper here -- I've never even *seen* an A4 sheet of paper. What good would it be to have my compiler generate an A4 document I can't run on my processor? -- greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
