[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Please, please take this discussion off this list.  This is not the
appropriate forum for it.

Dominik



On 30 September 2010 10:50, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tobias bist du des Wahnsinns!! (Sorry, Tobias way over-board here)
>
> I hate to say this nobody actually needs TeX&Co Nowadays. (See my next
> post)
> Not to say that they are the better system for doing things.
>
> TeX et al is for typesetting, layout and publishing that is its sole
> purpose! It was designed when you could not do alot of things with
> a computer easily.
>
> The content of a TeX-document is irrelevant.
>
> As far a structuralism is concerned, it is a obsolete concept in this
> modern world. Though, I agree that logic and good problem sovling
> skills are important and are not hardly taught anymore.
>
> regards (MfG)
>        Keith.
>
> Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co:
> > - those who absolutely need TeX, because no other system let's them
> produce the documents they have to (all this linguistis and co. [don't take
> offense, I have no idea of the professions around this topic])
> > - those who can use other systems but who would have an enourmous
> advantage in time and effort using TeX (mathematicians, other scientist,
> typographers of some kind [see above], ...)
> >
> > and now the important part
> >
> > - those who should think structurally (does this word exist?), when
> creating a text document. and that's nearly everybody who creates a text
> document other than a greeting or similar.
> >
> > To state it clearly:
> >
> > Every high school student, who wants to continue to university (in
> Germany: jeder Gymnasialschüler) should learn TeX&Co. in order to _think_
> _structurally_.
> >
> > It's not about programming vs. using. (I myself don't do anything plain
> TeX. I use packages and create new commands only as placeholders.) It's
> about the order in which to create a document:
> > 1. content
> > 2. structure
> > 3. revise 1&2
> > 4. layout
> >
> > MS Word&Co. proposes another order:
> > 1. content and layout mixed.
> > 2. structure
> > 3. revision (nearly impossible for large documents if its harder than
> using replace)
> > Btw: Is the table of contents in word still created from layout forms?
> >
> > bye Toscho
> >
> > PS: The high school, where I teach (better: learn teaching) will begin to
> teach LaTeX to the grade-10-students of its STEM-branch.
>
>
>
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