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Re: Technical Writing with LaTeX

Subject: Re: Technical Writing with LaTeX
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:07:23 -0700


Isaac Waisberg wrote:

I find LaTeX an amazing tool and I often wonder why is it neglected by
technical writers.

I suggest three main reasons:

- Only a minority of technical writers are comfortable with CLI tools,no matter how good they are. They prefer WYSIWYG tools

- Ditto for UNIX-based tools. Although there used to be a Windows version, and various plug-ins for Windows are available, they require a fair bit of setting up.

- For most tech-writing purposes, FrameMaker, InDesign, and OpenOffice.org are good enough. For that matter, many professional publishing houses don't use LaTeX for most technical books.

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References:
Technical Writing with LaTeX: From: Isaac Waisberg

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