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Re: Boldface typing
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Boldface typing |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:23:15 +0100 |
On 2014-12-31, at 13:20, Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 1:56:16 PM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> On 2014-12-31, at 05:55, Rusi wrote:
>>
>> > emacs does a rather poor job of word processing
>> >
>> > The solution in the emacs/unix world 20 years ago was latex/groff etc -- ie
>> > document processors
>>
>> Today, the solution is LaTeX (without the groff part),
>
> I personally could get more out of groff than out of latex.
> Also it looked more beautiful and the ps files were much smaller
>
> [20+ years ago...]
(Approximately) 20 years ago, when LaTeX2e was the hot new thing, it
might have been the case. Prior to LaTeX2e, customizing your LaTeX
output was a nightmare. Nowadays, with thousands of classes and
packages, including memoir, koma-script, tikz, beamer and many others,
the situation is a lot different - especially with the very dynamic
community, releasing several packages/modules/plugins every month. And
don't forget the ongoing work on LaTeX3 and LuaTeX (though this last is
more on the ConTeXt side of things; ConTeXt is also being constantly
worked on, and is capable of many things, including native XML input,
XML/ePUB output, very good support for tables, images and columns -
LaTeX is notoriuously lacking good support for columns and wrapping text
around images). Is groff also developed at such a pace? (I'm just
asking, I don't know.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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