[oi-dev] Tasks to focus on
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us
Sun Jan 24 17:30:30 UTC 2021
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Gary Mills wrote:
>
> First, though, there has to be demand for the software product. I,
> myself, have no interest in Tex. In fact, I don't even know what Tex
> is, except that it's used by mathematicians. I'm not one of those. I
> have some doubts about the demand.
While I did buy a couple of books on TeX a long time ago (and even
wrote a resume in it once) it did not catch on for me.
However, I have learned that TeX is a wonderful typesetting/publishing
system (with fonts!) which can be taken advantage of by other
software. This means that if you want to produce a PDF, or Postscript
for a printer, may be useful to have TeX available.
For example, I have written documentation using the reStucturedText
text format, and used reStucturedText tools which themselves used TeX
under the covers to produce nice PDF output.
Bob
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