12 Jan
2022
12 Jan
'22
7:48 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:07 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Blake McBride writes:
We'll have to agree to disagree.
--blake
I suppose #4 was my whole point about both TeX
and troff. They're both
great tools. Perhaps people used them in the past because there weren't
many other solutions. You had to learn them. These days people prefer
the
simpler tools such as Word, OpenOffice, etc.
Although they can't produce
the same quality, they can produce sufficient quality with a smaller
learning curve. Don't get me wrong, I despise Word. I just don't find
my
feelings echoed very much. Some things TeX and
troff are going to need
in
order to continue:
I disagree with your characterization that things like Word are simpler
tools.
They're way more complex than troff or TeX, both in code and usability.