Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 24, 2004 01:32 AM
Actually, there are some things that I use Plain TeX for. One of the advantages to (La)TeX that wasn't relevant to the discussion of LyX is that it is so easy to generate a document or pieces of a document from a script. This idea is certainly no longer a novelty in a world with XML and XSLT, but I have a Perl script that generates a TeX document from a database for me. The script has been slowly evolving since 1994.
That brings me to a second advantage of the TeX family. Your old documents can still be processed. Go grab a Word document from the early 90's and see what Office XP does with it. I'd be interested to know.
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Re:plain old LaTeX
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 24, 2004 01:32 AMThat brings me to a second advantage of the TeX family. Your old documents can still be processed. Go grab a Word document from the early 90's and see what Office XP does with it. I'd be interested to know.
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