From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Lewis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:33:32 -0800 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 1038174114 15452 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 21:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:41:54 +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 18G4Vl-000416-00 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:41:53 +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 18G4VG-0006dM-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:41:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!news01.chello.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: marge.cs.sfu.ca Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1038173818 13641 199.60.3.71 (24 Nov 2002 21:36:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 2002 21:36:58 GMT X-Attribution: Benjamin Lewis X-Yow: I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!! User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zKUJ39E/g5GU0f1JPv/Sbzrb+2I= X-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:36:36 MET (news01.chello.no) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107388 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:3940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3940 On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, ken@cleveland.lug.net wrote: > 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. Well, like with emacs, it may take longer to learn at first but it will save you time in the long run. Your documents will also look nicer. I find LaTeX files at least as easy to read as HTML, especially if you let AUC-TeX handle your formatting for you. > 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. I even use LaTeX for short overviews now, just as I edit even simple text files with emacs. It's all a matter of preference of course, but probably using LaTeX for only hours is not long enough to really start appreciating it. -- Benjamin Lewis Give yourself a chance to enjoy cycling and making it part of your life. -- jon isaacs, on rec.bicycles.misc