Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!ccplumb From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Where can I get AmigaTeX Message-ID: <16790@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 15:58:51 GMT References: <221@digi.UUCP> <856@madnix.UUCP> <228@estinc.UUCP> <1855@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 Follor-To: In article <1855@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> pepers@cs-sun-fa.UUCP (Bradley Pepers) writes: >Would anyone recomend TeX for writing a book (NOT a manual)? Or would a WP >like WordPerfect be better? It does, as others have pointed out, depend on the book. A novel isn't too demanding of the typesetting software. But, as Knuth says, TeX is designed for books. Its utility for smaller things is nice, but many people complain, with some justification, that it's too much hassle to get TeX set up for a page or two. In a longer work, the setup cost is proportionally less, and TeX makes it very easy to fine-tune the layout. The more attention you plan to pay to appearance, the better TeX is, since it gives more control than a word processor. I don't use LaTeX myself, mostly due to laziness: I never could be bothered to figure it out. If I need three-column output at some time, I'll probably learn rather than write my own output routines, but I can't comment on the relative ease of using the two. Plain TeX works fine for me. (Actually, I have this mad dream of rewriting TeX to give it a saner programming language, but that'll happen when the rich uncle I didn't know about becasue I was adopted and never told dies...:-}) -- -Colin