From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-07-17T10:57:40+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04070] Re: OT: Re: P. of least effort -- fragile typesetters

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