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<blockquote data-quote="zeta101" data-source="post: 213624" data-attributes="member: 11173"><p>TeX/LaTeX is very powerful but it takes a lot of effort to get good with it, seemingly simple things take say 30 minutes with google to figure out. Everything is written in plain ASCII text and you format things using codes (kinda like HTML or a programming language). Once you have a grip of it and have a template to work from it's easy and you can do pretty much anything with it.</p><p></p><p>LaTeX is not a word processor though really, it's a typesetter (That's why the documents look so nice). Also, you wouldn't really use it for very short documents (and you certainly wouldn't learn it if you are only going to be writing simple or short documents, it's just not worth it).</p><p></p><p>Skyecade, what kind of documents do you normally need to do? Also, I think your new mac comes with a free trial of iWork (look in your Applications folder, there should be an iWork folder in there near the bottom). See if you like pages (and if you have to do presentations then definatly have a play with keynote, it's amazing).</p><p></p><p>[Offtopic]--Is it me or did they add new smilies? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zeta101, post: 213624, member: 11173"] TeX/LaTeX is very powerful but it takes a lot of effort to get good with it, seemingly simple things take say 30 minutes with google to figure out. Everything is written in plain ASCII text and you format things using codes (kinda like HTML or a programming language). Once you have a grip of it and have a template to work from it's easy and you can do pretty much anything with it. LaTeX is not a word processor though really, it's a typesetter (That's why the documents look so nice). Also, you wouldn't really use it for very short documents (and you certainly wouldn't learn it if you are only going to be writing simple or short documents, it's just not worth it). Skyecade, what kind of documents do you normally need to do? Also, I think your new mac comes with a free trial of iWork (look in your Applications folder, there should be an iWork folder in there near the bottom). See if you like pages (and if you have to do presentations then definatly have a play with keynote, it's amazing). [Offtopic]--Is it me or did they add new smilies? :o [/QUOTE]
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