OK, someone requested the source, but my provider has some serious problems with relaying recently, so maybe I post it here (for anyone to check or fix).

For anyone who wants to see how LaTeX source looks like - just start with several PgDowns. The unreadable clutter at the beginning is just this fancy chapter/section formatting and header formatting commands. I don't understand them either ;-)

For anyone who wants to improve :-> please tell me, so we don't do the same job. I can supply you with html code that it was based on, to make diff.

And for the one who mentioned Lout. THANK YOU! I didn't know about this software. Lout compares to Latex like AmigaOS to UNIX... Or D to C++ (for someone who doesn't get it: it's 100 times better designed, 100 times simplier, 100 times smarter)...

ssuukk wrote:
> And for the one who mentioned Lout. THANK YOU! I didn't know about this software. Lout compares to Latex like AmigaOS to UNIX... Or D to C++ (for someone who doesn't get it: it's 100 times better designed, 100 times simplier, 100 times smarter)...
You're welcome :-)

If you start converting the manual to lout I would be happy to follow your efforts (hey, that was a nice way to say I want to participate without investing too much time, he? ;-) ).

I've never done anything big in lout until now since our publications all rely on LaTeX for now. But building whole magazines with latex I encountered some "problems". That was the reason looking for sth. similar but different (just like C++...).

ssuukk wrote:
> And for the one who mentioned Lout. THANK YOU! I didn't know about this software. Lout compares to Latex like AmigaOS to UNIX... Or D to C++ (for someone who doesn't get it: it's 100 times better designed, 100 times simplier, 100 times smarter)...
Getting an editor to get the indentation right is a pain in the a... Math formulas look quite ugly compared to LaTeX and this is hard to improve on. The lack of beeing turing complete make certain tasks extremly difficult, if not impossible. Lout has dropped support for the pdf backend, making it more difficult to produce electronic papers.

To summarize it, LaTeX, with its add on packages, is a very featurefull, mature, baroque and ugly beast. Lout is a small and clean, but still practical research project, which lacks some of the more advanced (nevertheless important) features, that LaTeX provides. I use both.

Olaf


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