From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 23:41:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8738fx5mxz.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401075762 2443 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2014 03:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 03:42:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 05:42:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolo1-0004zx-Qp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 05:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolo1-0005p4-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 23:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolnl-0005om-67 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 23:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolne-0006kE-VN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 23:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolne-0006k8-PD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 May 2014 23:42:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wolnd-000473-Jz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 05:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-247-212.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.247.212]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 05:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-247-212.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 05:42:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-247-212.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RlDEBJW0xP1F4Crx9/ft7XD4/B4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97874 Archived-At: > I think you're a much smarter fellow than me. That can't be it: there are so many people using it, it can't be that hard. > Over the years I've tried several times to learn LaTeX by spending > a day or two reading tutorials and using it. But, I've never been > able to write practical documents that way. It's possible to copy > templates, but understanding how they work so small changes can be > made is more difficult. Use comp.text.tex or http://tex.stackexchange.com/ and you'll learn much more quickly (and with much less frustration). Stefan