LaTeX can do way, way more than math and text layout. My favorite example:
https://mathvault.ca/wp-content/uploads/fancy-latex-output.png
That isn't a photoshopped collage of different LaTeX creations. The diagrams, the overlays and the fading is all created with LaTeX into that single image.
Erich
On Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 18:24, Sam Hansen eloquently inscribed:
> I agree with Steve on this. LaTeX is just a markup language for mathematical
> content. for most written things it is overkill, and there are definitely projects
> like the more XML based PreTeXt that offer huge improvements over vanilla
> LaTeX implementations. But LaTeX does what it does, hyper specific typeset
> and math, it does very well. It also is capable of some interesting accessibility
> things such as a nemeth braille output that it has over WYSISYG editors.
>
> Sam
>
>> On Jul 20, 2023, at 17:19, McDonald, Stephen <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more
> concerned with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", "this is a
> footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", "this is a sidebar
> note". The actual style that is used for a title, a footnote, or a quotation block
> is defined separately, and layout on a page is done in end-processing. I don't
> see any way you could separate those format blocks from the text to be
> blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you?
>>
>> Steve McDonald
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>> Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Stuart wrote on eates:
>>> LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts:
>>> formats conceived and developed prior to the software development
>>> insight that separation of content and code need to be separate.
>>>
>>> Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and
>>> style, but way back when, there wasn't even a consensus for the split
>>> between content and code.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> stuart
>>
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