-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> David Brodbeck writes: >>> TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're >>> writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. >> >> Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick >> up a >> bottle of milk. > > Depends on your perspective, I guess. It just feels like by the time I > get all the preliminary verbiage TeX needs typed out, I could have > written the whole letter in OO. Also, looking at my copy of 'The Not So > Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's not clear to me what document class > I'd use. They're all going to be a bit clumsy and inappropriate. It's > not an "article", it's not a "report", and it's certainly not a "book"... > And given what's going on in TeX (let alone LaTeX) behind the scenes, OO, when used to typeset a single letter, might prove to be a somewhat smaller truck :)
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