interlinear word processing

[Dr Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello,
You don't need to be a unix guru to become a decent user of TeX.
All this depends on its implementation. There are several decent
products for your Macintosh, one of which is Texture, which is
perhaps the easiest TeX on earth (you get the final printout
almost simultaneously in other window.)

And there are loads of LaTeX style files that enable you to
print bilingually, annotations outside the right/left margin,
etc. All you need to know is the conventions in your particular
style files: some are more intuitive than others.

  Speaking in general, TeX commands are like dictation.  If you
are analytical enough to express your idea in unambiguous words
and have your secretary finish the job, you can do anything and very
quickly in TeX.  Learning TeX will be a sort of machine translation --
just looking up the corresponding words. And you will soon be
thinking in TeX terminology when you see beautifully composed pages.

  But if you need to show yourself what to do, you'd better not use it.

Cheers,
Ysuji

P.S.
If you hate TeX, you could use PageMaker or similar things that
let you compose the page intuitively. Simple word processors do
not suit you.