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From: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where can I get AmigaTeX
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Date: 28 Sep 89 21:44:45 GMT
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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?
>
>    Brad Pepers


You don't way what kind of book.  If it contains tables, graphs,
charts, mathematics, then it might be worth it to use TeX.  If it is
pretty much straight text (you did say NOT a manual) then I don't think
it would be worth it unless you're already very comfortable with TeX.
Certainly it isn't worth it (IMHO) to learn TeX from scratch simply for
the purpose of typesetting straight text.

I'm speaking as someone who learned LaTeX in order to typeset a thesis
with a fair number of cited references, cross-references, tables,
figures, and mathematics, (for which it was invaluable);  and now that
that's over I'm kind of relieved that I can go back to something
"simple" like WordPerfect when I have simple (compared to a thesis)
writing to do.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu