On 10-8-2011 21:43, clipka wrote:
> Am 04.08.2011 17:45, schrieb andrel:
>
> [TeX]
>>> and it most certainly
>>> does /not/ handle styling or customisation of any kind!
>>
>> It most certainly does. Style files are are at the heart of the system.
>> As a small comparison: a friend of mine had written her thesis in Word,
>> after her text was accepted by the committee she needed 3 weeks of hard
>> work to convert it from an A4 draft version into a paperback format text
>> that she could submit to the printer. I did it, with the help of a
>> student, in one evening. And I had different layouts for chapters
>> depending on whether it was published before or not.
>>
> ...
>> If you mean debugging style files or bibstyle files you are correct,
>> that is a nightmare if you don't know what you are doing. Simple advise:
>> don't touch them.
>
>  From what I managed to glimpse from TeX so far, it is a great tool for
> scientific publications

Is there any other?
Seriously, the number of people that I know that write scientific 
publications far outnumbers the ones that write something else. But that 
may be due to the type of job I have. ;)

 > - that, and absolutely nothing else.

I use it for scientific papers, (automatically generated) documentation, 
short notes, discussion papers (blog style, but not on a blog page), my 
CV etc. Also my own thesis and those of PhD students of mine are 
typeset/designed in (La)TeX.

BTW most of what I use it for never ends up as dead trees. Live pixels 
perhaps.

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citizen per day.

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