[Open-graphics] Documentation on the video controller

[Peter TB Brett]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:38, Peter Lund wrote:

> >   I would really rather not burden a busy hardware engineer
> > with this.  I like LaTeX.  I do my homework in it, because I find it
> > easier to layout and edit a document with mathematical equations than
> > to write it by hand (legibly anyhow).  I think LaTeX is awesome.
>
> It is.  It definitely is.  But the new Word 2007 also gives you that in
> a package that is far easier to learn so I'm afraid LaTeX is going to
> die :(   New users will just use Word and only people who are set in
> their ways will continue using LaTeX (just like the ones that use *roff
> for anything but manpages).

I disagree.  Every time I've used any version of Word to write a document, 
I've found it practically impossible to:

  - Get formulas to be numbered
  - Add numbers & captions to tables
  - Refer to sections in a way that will automatically get updated when I
    insert a new one
  - Do citations in a sane manner.

Word is not a document preparation system, and neither will Word 2009 be.  On 
the other hand, LaTeX is pretty hard to do right too.  So I use LyX[1] and/or 
reST[2], and produce lovely documents with a minimum of effort.  WYSIWYM[3] 
is the way forward.

Just my £0.02 worth.

Peter


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyx
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
[3] What You See Is What You Mean

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