From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-07-17T04:58:03-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04073] Re: OT: Re: P. of least effort -- fragile typesetters

Hi,

"hipster" wrote in message
> 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.

Thanks for the info.

LyX looks like a pretty nice way of humanizing LaTex. If I ever do anything
in LaTex again, I'll certainly give it a try.

Conrad