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Subject:Re: Layout program or markup language From:"Lindsay Burrell" <lburrell -at- telus -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <TECHWR-L -at- LISTS -dot- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:16:04 -0700
>Unless there have been good WYSIWIG tools developped for TeX,
>the problem for many people is that it is annoying to type and
>maintain mark-up codes.
>Another important reason are tools for revision and document
>maintenance. TeX lacks many of these tools,. Those it does have
>tend to be less developed than in WYSIWYG
Also, TeX is an interoperability bear, at least as far as I was able to
tell.. It is compatible with exactly nothing, and last I checked, there
were no good filters. So if you are (say) editing a book and people send
you chapters in Tex, you are (as they say) frigged-up-Charlie.
