Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre.dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu!ejkst From: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Where can I get AmigaTeX Message-ID: <19781@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 21:44:45 GMT References: <221@digi.UUCP> <856@madnix.UUCP> <228@estinc.UUCP> <1855@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 25 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