> So, I figured out LaTeX and HTML (not to mention POV-Ray, the Lambda 
> calculus, cryptography, inorganic chemistry, and much else besides) yet 
> I couldn't figure out M$ Word?

In fairness, changing the styles in LaTeX is not something trivial 
either. As far as I figure, anytime you want to modify the appearance of 
something, you are going to have to dig into TeX code, which is not 
really friendly. That's the spirit of LaTeX, to split the formatting 
from the structure as much as possible.

I like LaTeX allright, but I admit it is utterly broken in some respects 
(images and fonts come to mind), and I dream that someday someone will 
come up with an alternative that fixes some of these... Once in a while, 
departing from the backward-compatible frozen software could be a good 
thing.

I mean I hope we will not be stuck forever between LaTeX where you 
cannot do anything visually, and Word-alike where you must do everything 
visually...

-- 
Vincent

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