Comments on: (La)TeX, 10 years later http://www.konstantin.shemyak.com/blog/2009/05/11/latex-10-years-later/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirill Evstigneev http://www.konstantin.shemyak.com/blog/2009/05/11/latex-10-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-13144 Kirill Evstigneev Fri, 15 May 2009 19:15:12 +0000 http://www.konstantin.shemyak.com/blog/?p=186#comment-13144 Let understand your post as "TeX is not excellent". But it's still good. Otherwise what's better? Let see. Compiler based tools (like TeX iеself). Most of them are more difficult to use (like DocBook with its complex SGML tags). And none of them has a notable part of TeX typesetting features. WYSIWYG tools again seldom have as much features as TeX has. And they <em>newer</em> produce the same quality printed output as TeX do (because TeX is a compiler). And their usability is often an illusion. Use simplicity. I newer seen a non-interactive typesetting system that is so easy to use. Years ago I and my sister wrote our diploma thesis's . Simultaneously, sharing a single computer. My sister used touch typing professionally and took 70% of our computer in MS Word. I (half-year TeX user) got remaining 30% in LaTeX. Obviously my paper was more complex, looked better and was ready first. Let understand your post as “TeX is not excellent”. But it’s still good. Otherwise what’s better? Let see.

Compiler based tools (like TeX iеself). Most of them are more difficult to use (like DocBook with its complex SGML tags). And none of them has a notable part of TeX typesetting features. WYSIWYG tools again seldom have as much features as TeX has. And they newer produce the same quality printed output as TeX do (because TeX is a compiler). And their usability is often an illusion.

Use simplicity. I newer seen a non-interactive typesetting system that is so easy to use. Years ago I and my sister wrote our diploma thesis’s . Simultaneously, sharing a single computer. My sister used touch typing professionally and took 70% of our computer in MS Word. I (half-year TeX user) got remaining 30% in LaTeX. Obviously my paper was more complex, looked better and was ready first.

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