Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:33:03 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A New World
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> ejablow at cox.net 2/2/2005 7:45:38 PM >>>
>
>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.

Ah.... though I am publishing books, all of the design/production work
is done by Bob Garcia <http://members.aol.com/garpub4/Credits.html> Neil
Gaiman fans should take note of Bob's work...

mjw