Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:34:03AM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
> > My colleagues mostly _use_ MS Office, but
> >they _envy_ LaTeX.
> 
>  Excuse my ignorance, but is LaTex not like assembler?
> 
>  Complete pain in the behind until you get to grips with it (which takes a
> while), and then stunningly useful once you have?
> 

Ah, I see. Completely unlike Word, which is a complete pain until you
get to grips with it. Then, it just starts to do evil things when you
need it most, like destroy half of your final year dissertation for
no good reason.

But I'm not bitter ;)

Seriously though, LaTeX is a bit hairy to start off with, but you
soon get used to it. And I'm sure that with WYSIWYG style front-ends
for it (e.g. LyX), it'll take a lot of the pain out of setting things
up for the first time and smooth the learning curve a little bit.

A.D.

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