Re: LaTeX / Metafont was Re: Arabic transliteration

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> Well, to me, it's more like cutting steak with a toy knife. :-) I
> prefer
> to eat steak with a *real* knife, thank you very much. :-)
>
LOL. I'll show you some knives I have, and you'll definitely want to come back
to the toy knife :))) .

>
> Nah. I routinely to one-page documents with LaTeX.
Me too. But hey, I never said I was consistent :)) .

>
> And for five-liners... plaintext is perfectly good. Why waste 10KB of
> disk
> space when 400 bytes would do? :-)
>
Because my French banck is anal about how the letters you send them look like
and I don't want to give them the privilege to receive a LaTeX-letter? :)))

>
> You mean, UNIX-challenged people? :-P
>
No no, Windows-harassed... I could install Linux on my computer (I have it
already at work and know how to use it), but I have to wait until I have enough
money for a new hard drive.

>
> Ugh. If you're on Windows, do yourself a favor and install EditPlus
> (www.editplus.com). It's WAY better than notepad or wordpad or any of
> the
> other monstrosities that ships with Windows. You'll love plain text
> more
> than you ever imagine you could once you get comfortable using
> EditPlus.
But it's not freeware, and I refuse to pay for such things. But I already have
JED and Yudit on Windows, so that's quite enough :))) .

> To steal an analogy from a coworker, it's like the difference between
> refugee camp and a real residence. :-)
>
Hehe, I have two residences in the sun then :))) .

By the way, did you manage to subscribe to LaTeX-for-Conlangers? I can try to
subscribe you if you want...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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