William Klein wrote:
>Scott Norwood wrote:
>> Sorry for the horribly delayed response, but I would like to mention that
>> many of us do indeed use LaTeX for our FAQs. It is by far the easiest way
>> to generate multiple formats without a lot of hand editing of each version.
>
>I assume that you are in a non-Microsoft environment.
Why? Oh, the world is partitioned into "Microsoft" and "non-Microsoft", I
see. Surely he is allowed to choose a "non-Microsoft" solution, even in a
"Microsoft" environment, particular when one exists that is far superior?
If I had to use Windows, I'd still choose LaTeX over Word any day.
>MS Word *certainly* does
>this easily. You simply "click" on a "SAVE AS" option and decide whether you
>want it saved as text (DOS, Windos, or ASCII - with or without
formatting), or
>HTML or Word or a variety of other options.
Last time I looked, the crud Word (97) output could hardly pass as HTML.
Charset is windows-1252? Font tags instead of heading tags? Font tags with
absolute size and proprietary fonts like "Arial"? LaTeX has a key
advantage- it edits structured documents, so it knows what is a section,
what is a chapter. Word simply has no clue (or attempts to fudge it,
although this doesn't appear to extend to its HTML generator).
You do realise that LaTeX does allow all the things you say in some way or
another, and arguably does them better? Hence the original author sharing
his positive experiences. It is a sadly all-to-common attitude that
Microsoft always wins, and anyone who chooses the alternatives is an
"out-there open-source hacker" or something.
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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