Please, please take this discussion off this list. This is not the appropriate forum for it.<br><br>Dominik<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 September 2010 10:50, Keith J. Schultz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithjschultz@web.de">keithjschultz@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Tobias bist du des Wahnsinns!! (Sorry, Tobias way over-board here)<br>
<br>
I hate to say this nobody actually needs TeX&Co Nowadays. (See my next post)<br>
Not to say that they are the better system for doing things.<br>
<br>
TeX et al is for typesetting, layout and publishing that is its sole<br>
purpose! It was designed when you could not do alot of things with<br>
a computer easily.<br>
<br>
The content of a TeX-document is irrelevant.<br>
<br>
As far a structuralism is concerned, it is a obsolete concept in this<br>
modern world. Though, I agree that logic and good problem sovling<br>
skills are important and are not hardly taught anymore.<br>
<br>
regards (MfG)<br>
Keith.<br>
<br>
Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co:<br>
> - those who absolutely need TeX, because no other system let's them produce the documents they have to (all this linguistis and co. [don't take offense, I have no idea of the professions around this topic])<br>
> - those who can use other systems but who would have an enourmous advantage in time and effort using TeX (mathematicians, other scientist, typographers of some kind [see above], ...)<br>
><br>
> and now the important part<br>
><br>
> - those who should think structurally (does this word exist?), when creating a text document. and that's nearly everybody who creates a text document other than a greeting or similar.<br>
><br>
> To state it clearly:<br>
><br>
> Every high school student, who wants to continue to university (in Germany: jeder Gymnasialschüler) should learn TeX&Co. in order to _think_ _structurally_.<br>
><br>
> It's not about programming vs. using. (I myself don't do anything plain TeX. I use packages and create new commands only as placeholders.) It's about the order in which to create a document:<br>
> 1. content<br>
> 2. structure<br>
> 3. revise 1&2<br>
> 4. layout<br>
><br>
> MS Word&Co. proposes another order:<br>
> 1. content and layout mixed.<br>
> 2. structure<br>
> 3. revision (nearly impossible for large documents if its harder than using replace)<br>
> Btw: Is the table of contents in word still created from layout forms?<br>
><br>
> bye Toscho<br>
><br>
> PS: The high school, where I teach (better: learn teaching) will begin to teach LaTeX to the grade-10-students of its STEM-branch.<br>
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