RE: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
>
>    >> My colleagues mostly _use_ MS Office, but they _envy_ LaTeX.
>
>    Barrie>  Excuse my ignorance, but is LaTex not like assembler?
>
>No.  Laserjet files are like assembler, Postscript is like C, TeX is
>like Lisp, and LaTeX is like SQL---verbose but straightforward.

 Oh, good, I can just about handle SQL :-)

>    Barrie>  Complete pain in the behind until you get to grips with
>    Barrie> it (which takes a while), and then stunningly useful once
>    Barrie> you have?

>Basic LaTeX is easier than basic HTML,
>and far more useful in terms of producing "finished" documents.

 I'm getting mpre interested as the day goes on!

>I admit, I already knew nearly 10 programming languages and the TeX
>equation syntax (type `$', and spell it as you would say it with
>letters and digits and many operators standing for themselves and
>everything else prefixed with `\', then a terminating `$') by the time
>LaTeX was available.

 I'm sure I could pick it up, on only know bits of BASIC, HTML, C, assembler,
Tcl and SQL - the easy ones :-) - but adding a little bit of LaTex shouldn't 
be
too hard.

 Is there a useful (i.e. starts simple!) source of info for learning LaTex, 
and
yes, as usual, I haven't read man latex in donkeys.

Baz.

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