Re: English versus German

On Jul 2, 9:55 am, LEE Sau Dan <dan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Peter> You don't know _what_ you're talking about. Did you never
    Peter> manage to find the button that turns on hyphenation -- which
    Peter> you should never do until you've finished writing your text
    Peter> and now need to shape it for the publisher? (In the
    Peter> unfortunate event that you're preparing camera- ready copy..)

Why  should  I  have  to  bother  with that  button?   LaTeX  does  that
automatically, even for the draft copies.

That is definitely a bug, not a feature.

And whose rules for hyphenation does it follow?

Why  would you turn  on hyphenation  in Word  ONLY for  the camera-ready
copy?    What's  the   reason  behind   that   recommendation?   Answer:
inefficient, poorly implemented hyphenation algorithm.

Hyphenated text is an obstacle to clear writing and revising. And
there is no reason for it outside justified text, and justifying text
is a matter for a designer, not a writer. (Remember when your messages
appeared justified, in mono-spaced fonts, with wildly varying spacing
between words, because you were using a Chinese word processor for
writing English? It made your text quite difficult to read.)

    Peter> If you've never discovered Word's keyboard shortcuts, you've
    Peter> been misusing the program.

If you've never discovered LaTeX,  you've been misusing your computer as
just a "smarter typewriter".

I'm still waiitng to hear of something it can do better or easier than
Word. (Other than mathematical equations, which are of no concern to
me or to 99.9995% of users. That's one in a million.)
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