Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> In fairness, changing the styles in LaTeX is not something trivial 
> either.

Lamentably true...

> 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...

Amen!

(Now and then, I do have these insane ideas that maybe I could 
reimplement TeX using Haskell. I mean, the source code is available, so...)

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