From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:31:47 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038173697 14367 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 21:34:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:34:57 +0000 (UTC) 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 18G4P2-0003jZ-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:34:56 +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 18G4QO-000369-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:36:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.228.27.239 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1038173507 12.228.27.239 (Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:31:47 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:31:47 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107386 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:3939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3939 ken writes: >Kai, > >Thanks for the introduction. :) > >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. >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 >typesetting, I'd definitely revisit it. But its not the only tool >available for formatting documents and not necessarily always the best >for every job. > No one is arguing either of these points; I believe most of the contention has been about what degree of complexity of a document warrants the transition from HTML to LaTeX. IIRC, in your first post on this subject, you said that HTML was good for anything up to and including a master's thesis, and I suspect that common opinion is against you on this head. I'm not sure where is a better spot to plant the arbitrary transition point, but I am sure that it's well south of the master's thesis. All the best, -- Mike Slass