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> This is about the 8th time *this month* that somebody has agreed with 
> me... holy crap, I'M ON A ROLL!!!

No, you're just at the end of an over-extended phase of beta testing. Just a 
few remaining bugs to iron out and you will be a Release Candidate for 
procreation. You already got the hardware, it's really a programming issue.

G.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice.

  I don't think MS Word would be the best tool for that either...

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Invisible wrote:
> - The default typeface is delicious.

I hope you don't mean the ones Knuth designed...

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Invisible wrote:
> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice. It's really designed for writing 
> long documents, not 1-page custom-layout things like that.

Technically, it was designed for writing mathematics text books. :-)

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
>> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice.
> 
>   I don't think MS Word would be the best tool for that either...

Best? No. (Not sure what would be, but NOT Word...)

Better than TeX? Probably. ;-)

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Gilles Tran wrote:

> No, you're just at the end of an over-extended phase of beta testing. Just a 
> few remaining bugs to iron out and you will be a Release Candidate for 
> procreation. You already got the hardware, it's really a programming issue.

Wooohoo! RC FTW!

Maybe it's just all that "be positive" stuff from Hot Sales Girl 
inspiring me or something...

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
>> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice. It's really designed for 
>> writing long documents, not 1-page custom-layout things like that.
> 
> Technically, it was designed for writing mathematics text books. :-)

Maybe that's why it suits me so much? ;-)

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>> - The default typeface is delicious.
> 
> I hope you don't mean the ones Knuth designed...

Gee, I don't know. I just install the TeX package, write a LaTeX 
document, compile it and go. I'm not even exactly sure which typeface it 
uses - only that it looks cool...

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Warp escribió:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
>> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice.
> 
>   I don't think MS Word would be the best tool for that either...
> 
But of course everybody uses it for that. And with Comic Sans MS font.

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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Similarly, if you wanted to put together something like an advert or 
> >> poster, TeX would be a very bad choice.
> > 
> >   I don't think MS Word would be the best tool for that either...

> Best? No. (Not sure what would be, but NOT Word...)

  From Microsoft, probably MS Publisher.

  For other alternatives, maybe Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress. In the
open source side of the world, maybe Scribus.

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