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

[Alain Schremmer]

Well, yes, but /I/ would say that writing is hard enough as it is. 
Still, yes, looking at yourself in print is flattering. I wish, though, 
that the output would not be so perfect thereby giving me a chance to 
finish my book. I once spent several days formatting long divisions. 
They now look a lot better than my first attempt but I don't really have 
that sort of time anymore.
Regards
--schremmer

Jon Crump wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> G
>
>
> I'm not the most advanced computer user and I too often get frustrated 
> with TeX's opacity and wish it were easier to learn how to do 
> something in TeX that I haven't done before. On the other hand, one of 
> the big reasons I took the trouble to make the leap from 
> word-processors to TeX was because I _didn't_ want WYSIWYG. A word 
> processor gives the dangerous illusion that your words are beautiful 
> right out of the gate -- they're usually not.
>
> I like the two-stage process of writing with TeX: first you squeeze 
> out some words, it's hard, they're not pretty, and this is reflected 
> in the way they look on the screen in plain ASCII and coded 
> instructions. Then you massage them, edit them, clean them up, and 
> then you run them through TeX. Only then do they become beautiful.
>
> Jon
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