[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

14 messages 2000/07/14

[#4043] What are you using Ruby for? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/07/16

[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/07/20

[ruby-talk:04070] Re: OT: Re: P. of least effort -- fragile typesetters

From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-07-17 08:57:40 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4070
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000  03:16:54 -0500, Conrad Schneiker wrote:
[rather OT]
> > Having wrestled with Word, Star Office, eqn|tbl|troff,  and hand crafted
> > PostScript drawings (ouch!), I'd be interested.  Is Lout flexible enough?
> 
> This is the first time I've looked at it. Certainly looks interesting.
> Anyone else have any experience with it?

When I first came across UNIX typesetting I thought TeX would be a bit
too hairy and gave Lout a try instead. Although the system is well
worked out (and small), it felt awkward. Limited font support, .ps only
output, and a (IMHO) cryptic and consequently hard to memorize syntax.
(this was about 3 years ago)
So I switched to LaTeX, added LyX (http://www.lyx.org) and never looked
back.

Michel

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