[H-GEN] LaTeX

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Sun Nov 17 20:07:42 EST 2002


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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
>
> ben.carlyle at invensys.com writes:
>
>> [1] Now I don't want to hear the word LaTEX, kiddies...
>
> Whyever not?  TeX and LaTeX are excellent tools for producing written
> documentation.

Absolutely.   TeX was {HT/X}ML done right, 20 years before
Berners-Lee's unconscionable hack gained notoriety beyond its merit.

If you can write HTML, learning LaTeX should be a doddle.

--cjb

(There, that oughta get the flames going again.)


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