From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:51:35 -0500 (EST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3PQD9.121756$QZ.20321@sccrnsc02> <87n0nzpvqy.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <84u1i7yplz.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Reply-To: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038163946 22199 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 18:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18G1rk-0005lu-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:52:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G1s9-0007bt-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18G1rF-00065u-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:51:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18G1rC-0005wb-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:51:52 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-65-43-208-143.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net ([65.43.208.143] helo=heidegger.mousecar.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G1rB-0005tq-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:51:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by heidegger.mousecar.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAOIpcp25955; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:51:38 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: heidegger.mousecar.net: ken owned process doing -bs Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-X-Sender: Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= In-Reply-To: <84u1i7yplz.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by heidegger.mousecar.net id gAOIpcp25955 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3930 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3930 Kai, Thanks for the introduction. :) =20 Years ago I gave LaTeX a fair try-- much more than a half hour-- and came away from it quite unsatisfied. To my way of thinking, html is more intuitive and much easier to write in as well as to read. =20 Moreover, html is the lingua franca of the web and docs so formatted drop into it without modification and without need for a plug-in; correct me if I'm mistaken, but LaTex docs don't. Of course LaTeX has its place. If I were involved in high-end=20 typesetting, I'd definitely revisit it. But its not the only tool=20 available for formatting documents and not necessarily always the best=20 for every job. Thanks for the input, ken --=20 AMD crashes? See http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/amd-problem/. Kai Gro=DFjohann at 16:06 (UTC+0100) on Sun, 24 Nov 2002 said: =3D ken writes: =3D=20 =3D > ... and that, according to Heidegger, "every metaphysical thought i= s =3D > ontological or it is nothing at all."(Holzwege, p. 206) =3D=20 =3D That's a good approach to the problem. But with LaTeX, it's even =3D easier. You write this; =3D=20 =3D and that, according to Heidegger, ``every metaphysical though is =3D ontological or it is nothing at all.''\footnote{Holzwege, p.\ 206= } =3D=20 =3D And then LaTeX will create a footnote for you and number it and all =3D that stuff. Note that, for completeness, I've also included the =3D strange backslash after the `p.' which tells LaTeX that this dot is =3D not a sentence-end period. There are a couple of commands like this =3D that you need to learn, but there is a 20 page document that explains =3D about these things and you can read that in half an hour or so. =3D=20 =3D As another example, you write =3D=20 =3D \section{Introduction} =3D \label{sec:intro} =3D=20 =3D ...some text... =3D=20 =3D And then elsewhere you can refer to this section, like so: =3D=20 =3D As we already mentioned in section \ref{sec:intro}, ... =3D=20 =3D You can see that LaTeX does those things which you wanted to write =3D Lisp for. So why bother writing Lisp! =3D=20 =3D kai =3D=20