On Tuesday 11 September 2007 09:14, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
For what it is worth, in 20 years of usage, with two
masters theses and a Ph.D. thesis, I've never had TeX crash on me -- not even once. And it understands kerning too.
And it's the right tool for laying out a document and producing output in multiple formats. Unfortunately my half hearted attemtps to use tex and Latex have been just that. Also afaik there is the problem of importing spreadsheets and documents from OO into tex. I did attend a workshop by Dr.Nag many yrs ago and the o/p generated by tex in particular maths formula is years ahead of other layout tools.