From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A New World
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:45:38 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Feb 2, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Barry L. Newton wrote:

> Interestingly, MarkLFischer at aol.com said:
>> TeX is very powerful....it's also what you'd call WYSIAVSLC:  "What
>> You See
>> Is A Very Steep Learning Curve".  Only an extreme masochist would
>> use it for
>> day-to-day word crunching
>
> Seems to me that the original web language (SGML) is in a similar
> vein, but
> I've never actually seen anybody use it.
>

Well, I was a mathematician for many years.  It's my heritage.
And, it's not that bad.  You don't have to use anything you
don't need.  Now, SGML was never meant to be written by humans.

But, if you're publishing books, there's nothing better.  The last
business letter I typed was in TeX.

Eric