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

[Gerben Wierda]

Yes it is. Because when you do it you wil learn about  your idea. There 
is no explanation that will convince you, I think. People talk about 
the richness of TeX vs the limitations of GUI-interfaces. I can tell 
you about the complexity of user's wishes and demands and those of the 
operating system and how to be able to minimize complexity for the user 
while not completely ignoring their wishes.

I think a better GUI WYSIWYG word processor could be done. It could 
even be partly based on some TeX algorithms. But for instance, try to 
imagine building formula's in this WYSIWYS editor. How do you put in 
conceptual things? Because if you don't, you lose the power of the 
typesetting engine below.

Etc.

G

On 16 Nov 2004, at 03:00, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Yes, it always come to that but it is not an answer.
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On 15 Nov 2004, at 23:06, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> Clearly, I wouldn't have been able to be a secretary at the computer 
>>> science department of your old university.
>>>
>>> I am not familiar with the first TeXGInstaller.app but I don't see 
>>> what would be wrong with such an app as an /alternative/ for those 
>>> who want, or do not know better
>>
>>
>> You are free to build and maintain one.
>>
>> G
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