Re: The Problems of TeX

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:14:05 +0100, Torsten Bronger
<bronger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not so sure about LaTeX, though. Over the last year, I've had a
lot to do with beginners, and I was stunned how badly they used
LaTeX. Mostly, these people were really good scientists or
engineers, so the limiting factor must have been somewhere else. I

In my experience, a reason for this is given by cultural heritage:
often they just want to get it done and quickly and do not care about
doing it Right(TM) whatever that means. So they ask around and get
suggested code e.g. from their advisors, whose knowledge in turn dates
back to plain TeX, so blindily they mix high level LaTeX constructs
with low level, possibly suboptimal, TeX hacks.


Michele
--
It's because the universe was programmed in C++.
No, no, it was programmed in Forth. See Genesis 1:12:
"And the earth brought Forth ..."
- Robert Israel in sci.math, thread "Why numbers?"
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