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<blockquote data-quote="lil" data-source="post: 213677"><p>This is all very true, LaTeX you have to learn the markup etc., as it is a typesetter like you say, you get a nice editor but for the best part, the actual technicalities of writing the material is done by hand. Good if you can remember commands and the likes...</p><p></p><p>My LaTeX is a little rusty but I'm sure I would remember it again quickly as it makes sense. It does come into its own when writing very long material such as dissertations, thesis, scientific reports, maths papers, long technical manuals and even just long prose.</p><p></p><p>The resultant text is typeset beautifully—something Word cannot claim to do. For anything these days with illustration (especially my books), I have reverted back to DTP with InDesign CS2, as the typesetting is beautiful, and it just works better, anchored objects also clear up one big gripe with regards to text shifting but the object not doing so. No one however, can deny that a good LaTeX editor is a lot faster than InDesign is.</p><p></p><p>That said, I'm very interested to see what this Mellel is all about!</p><p></p><p>Vicky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lil, post: 213677"] This is all very true, LaTeX you have to learn the markup etc., as it is a typesetter like you say, you get a nice editor but for the best part, the actual technicalities of writing the material is done by hand. Good if you can remember commands and the likes... My LaTeX is a little rusty but I'm sure I would remember it again quickly as it makes sense. It does come into its own when writing very long material such as dissertations, thesis, scientific reports, maths papers, long technical manuals and even just long prose. The resultant text is typeset beautifully—something Word cannot claim to do. For anything these days with illustration (especially my books), I have reverted back to DTP with InDesign CS2, as the typesetting is beautiful, and it just works better, anchored objects also clear up one big gripe with regards to text shifting but the object not doing so. No one however, can deny that a good LaTeX editor is a lot faster than InDesign is. That said, I'm very interested to see what this Mellel is all about! Vicky [/QUOTE]
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