Hi,
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Liam McDermott wrote:
> What little experience I have had with latex has given me mixed
> impressions.
People with a little experience of LaTeX usually have mixed impressions.
It's very similar to getting a windows user to move to linux. The learning
curve is immediately evident but the benefits only start to become apparent
over time.
> Often Latex editors will only accept pics files in eps format, and
> trying to manually format pages is a pain in the hole.
Using \includegraphic{} you may include encapsulated postscript (eps)
within a postscript document (eg. using latex && dvips) or png/pdf images
in a pdf document (using pdflatex). It has nothing to do with LaTeX
editors, it is because LaTeX simply includes the image into the final
document so the format of your image must be supported within the produced
document format.
> It is however handy when you have a class file for the docs your writing.
Indeed.
> I think you need a fair bit of tech knowledge to use it though, its
> closer to web programming/html than most people will be used to. Its not
> out of the box easy to use. I think any training will spend a lot of time
> getting people to be able to do anything with it, let alone using
> advanced features.
Sadly, I'd have to agree with that.
Gavin
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