Re: The beauty of LATEX

Joel de Guzman <[email protected]>
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On 10/22/2011 5:07 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> I'm not sure if TeX falls under that category, it's such a weird
> language I've never understood what it is. I just don't have the
> patience to learn how to program in it. It seems to more of a macro
> language. As far as I can tell there's a general consensus that it's
> not a nice programming language at all, maybe even icky.

I agree. Qbk syntax is by far better. Also, one thing that DocBook
does better is the separation of content from presentation. LaTeX
code is a mix of content and presentation.

Regards,
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Joel de Guzman
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