interlinear word processing
David Powelstock
d-powelstock at uchicago.edu
Tue Nov 28 05:40:15 UTC 1995
Hello,
English?
David
At 10:29 AM 11/28/95 +0900, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
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