Re: Document Prep using Linux (fwd)

["Jeffrey Yep" <jyep@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey guys!
I'd like to know abt Latex and ofcourse r there any docs or books for 
learning it? Cuz as I can see from the emails on this list it seems to be a 
real good software.
Jeff

>From: XRDLAB <mysxrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
>To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Document Prep using Linux (fwd)
>Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:11:49 +0530 (IST)
>
>Hi,
>
>Just to add some of my comments.
>
> >As far as I know there are no MS-Word (or MS-*) converters for TeX or
> >LaTeX.  I'd be glad to be proven wrong on this!
>
>tex2rtf (or rtf2tex) does the job. How effectively, I do not know as I
>have not tried it. Reason: I am addicted to LaTeX and very rarely
>invoke Word (in case someone sends me a file).
>
> >Finally, my personal opinion: while the learning curve for getting to
> >use TeX/LaTeX effectively is pretty steep,
>
>I do not think it is really steep. In fact, to get a good looking
>document using LaTeX is much easier than in anything else.
>
> >....package and the incredible quality of the final outp
> >long ago that it was the ultimate document preparation tool.  You can
> >actually format the same text using any other tool (e.g. MS-Word) and
> >TeX and compare the printouts on the same printer, and you will see
> >what I mean.
> >
>No doubt about that. In case someone is into maths,
>typesetting equations is very easy with TeX. Spacing and kerning are
>two aspects which are strong points of TeX. Add to this a wonderful
>hyphenation scheme (one can define how to hyphenate words not known to
>the system), you have the best document processor. In fact, many of
>the scientific journals are typeset using TeX/LaTeX.
>
>One more comment, typeset 100 equations in Word and you have a very
>huge file. TeX files being textfiles very rarely reach that
>size. In our department, we have 300 page theses typeset using LaTeX
>which occupy some 300KB (tex files).
>
>Regarding Word or any other WYSIWYG, to quote from LaTeX Book,
>
>   What you see is all you've got.
>
>sridhar
>
>
>********************************************
>Dr. Sridhar M. A.
>Department of Physics
>University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
>Mysore 570 006, INDIA
>
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>
>
>
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