[OS X TeX] Who should use (La)TeX - who is able to use it?

Alain Schremmer Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net
Tue Nov 16 03:06:57 CET 2004


On the other hand there is the rest of us who don't think they can ever 
get that fast.
Regards
--schremmer

Joseph C. Slater wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> What almost everybody would like was a WYSIWYG editor which would 
>> produce the quality of TeX (better even, because some parts of TeX 
>> can do with improvement) but which would be completely GUI in its 
>> interface.
>>
> GUI interfaces are far too slow. I dread the thought, but you are 
> probably right. GUIs are good for situations where you don't remember 
> the 'command' for a task, and don't want to have to look it up or are 
> prone to syntax errors. Otherwise, they just slow you down.
>
> Joe
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