Re: getting out of LaTeX


António Marques wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

1st: replace all ^p^p (double paragraph mark) with a string that
never occurs in your document (usually I use a double tilde).

Duh.

There are no double-paragraph marks.

If the PDF text is pasted with one paragraph per line, then real
paragraphs will have two paragraph hidden characters, and you just have

No, they do not. I have had "Show Hidden Text" turned on for that file,
because it was simpler than bothering to go and check the only ones I
needed, Show Tabs and Show Paragrahs.

to convert two into say '~~', convert the single ones to ' ', and '~~'
back into '^p', that's what Paul was kindly explaining.
If however it is pasted with a line break per line (^l), then, much more
simply and reliably, just replace all '^l' by ' '.

It is not pasted with a line break. It is pasted with a paragraph
break.

I always use "forced line return," i.e. the Shift-Return character.

In Windows that would certainly insert a line break. A line break
doesn't end a paragraph, only forces the text to continue on the next
line. A sometimes unwanted side effect is that the line with the ^l, if
the paragraph is justified, will stretch, usually at the cost of
enormous spacing between words.

Of course. That's one of the things it's for.

But it's not ^l, it's ^r.

Yeah, right. Word can't even handle its own Section Break facility
reliably, and numbering paragraphs in Outline Style is a nightmare that
has _never_ worked properly -- not to mention it doesn't even update
Cross References -- and I'm going to give it a macro?!?

That's where the latex thing shines. It does exactly what you tell it to
(though for lots of stuff it lacks precise control of output).

Then it is, just as I have been saying for years, useless for
typesetting.

Word is pretty much garbage and only suited to write 3-page memos, but
unfortunately the industry doesn't provide usable DTP alternatives.

How many times do I have to tell you about FrameMaker? (With control to
thousandths of a point in most parameters.)

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