Re: getting out of LaTeX

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Peter, when are you going to take the trouble to learn just a
>> little bit of TeX/LaTeX, and thus stop making a fool of
>> yourself when, from your deep ignorance of this system, you
>> criticize it at every possible opportunity?

Peter> I see its output;

I've been suggesting that you see it *INPUT* -- the manuscript. Have
you every tried?


Peter> that's all I need to know that it's crap. When I also see
Peter> that in order to format anything you basically have to
Peter> program every change, that confirms that it's crap. It's
Peter> for "software engineers," not scholars.

This paragraph shows your complete ignorance.


>> TeX/LaTeX files are saved as text files - so that you can edit
>> them with any simple text editor. If the stuff that you are
>> interested in was indeed typeset with LaTeX, the examples
>> should be available as ASCII text (unless they were originally
>> in some sort of graphics format imported into LaTeX, that is).

Peter> Linguistic examples cannot be "available" as ASCII
Peter> text. ASCII text has no diacritics, for instance.

1) I've already mentioned that a German is likely to prepare his
LaTeX manuscript using iso-8859-1, which LaTeX can handle without
problems.

2) You're being limited by your imaginations. Maybe, you should have
a look at VIQR to learnt that even with ASCII, one can *represent*
diacritics in a useful way.



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