Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:57:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ken Keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> Subject: Holy Wars (was: Smaller, Dedicated tools and Greg's Daemon News Article) Message-ID: <19981214185716.H17075@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.981214101527.24650A-100000@csd>; from Nadav Eiron on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 10:21:00AM %2B0200 References: <19981214183905.F17075@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.981214101527.24650A-100000@csd>
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On Monday, 14 December 1998 at 10:21:00 +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 13 December 1998 at 23:29:40 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> A recent email chat combined with Greg's article have completely convinced >>> me that I should learn a little bit more programming in order to make my >>> life easier. >>> >>> Emacs, Tex, >> >> Don't go overboard. Emacs, OK, but TeX might help you find positive >> things about Microsoft Wart. > > I'd say you weren't too far: I use Xemacs + LaTeX for practicaly all of my > writing (except for Hebrew, but luckily for you, that's probably not a > problem for you :-) ). I'm sure Hebrew's more of a problem for me than it is for you :-) > Especially if you write scientific stuff (which, by your .sig, I'd > suspect you are) there's nothing that beats LaTeX. At least in our > discipline (Computer Science), LaTeX is the Lingua Franca for all > scientific work. I'd say reading/writing LaTeX source code is > practicaly a requirement for being a researcher in theoretical > CS. The standard reference on it (Leslie Lamport's book) is, well, > not easy to read, but it's still worth the effort (and I heard there > are other good books for it). I used LaTeX years ago, before I gave it up for TeX. When I wrote my first book, O'Reilly asked me to write it in troff, which I did after some objections. To my astonishment, it was *much* easier. I've almost completely stopped using TeX since then. Yes, I know that you can get good results from it, but it's one of those programs that made people avoid me for hours after I used it. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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