[FRIAM] LaTeX

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> So the question to all you LaTeX folks, could you let us know which  
> of the many implementations you use, and how you use it?
>   
TeX is very roughly like Linux distributions in the sense there is a lot 
of stuff from the community and then particular assemblies of it for 
different settings.   See http://www.ctan.org/starter.html for more.

> From what I can tell, the two approaches are integrated edit/view  
> systems, vs your basic text editor using a standalone viewer.  What  
> to FRIAMer TeX'ers like??
`Word processing' systems like Scientific Workplace 
(http://www.mackichan.com) have their fans, but `real' TeX gurus write 
TeX and LaTeX like programmers write code.   Of course, there's a wide 
range of skill for TeXies as there is for programmers, so there's plenty 
of cargo-cult TeX and stylesheets, which I suspect explains why 
integrated view/edit systems have had limited success.  I suppose there 
is plenty of cruddy HTML/CSS or XML/XSLT/CSS that still manage to mix up 
presentation and content as badly..