[Gllug] Hi!

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:43:17PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 Jun 2009, Matthew Smith wrote:
> >  I recall seeing people debate on the Usenet groups in the mid-1990s 
> >and one of them said he didn't use a word processor; he used LaTeX for 
> >all his text-producing needs, which struck me as both rather macho and 
> >toffee-nosed towards people who don't want to learn a new markup 
> >language just to write a letter.
> 
> Who would learn a new markup language just to write a letter?  No-one.
> But who only has to write one letter in their life?
> 
> I don't use word processors either. You may decry that as "rather
> macho and toffee-nosed" but it does happen to be true. Would you
> prefer I lied about it?

The unsaid implication is that you don't need to learn anything to use
a word processor. The unfortunate thing is that many people assume that
and just manage to get by - but produce horrendous documents as a result,
you all know the sort of thing: columns lined up by inserting a number of
spaces - which all falls to bits on a font change :-(

The truth is that we all need to learn to do anything.

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