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01-31-2002

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I use:

VI for all my UNIX text file editing. VI is extremely fast and the search and replace functions are incredible!
MS Word for shared business documents because that is how my clients do business.

I think the secret to happiness is not to be dogmatic about IT tools but to use the appropriate and best tool based on the job, right?

However, the learning curve for VI is high and many people will not take the time to reap the benefits of VI....... I'm lucky to be a VI user for over 16 years! I've been using MS WORD for less than have of that. I did find that migrating from VI/LaTeX to MS WORD/Acrobat for professional publications was a good move for me. I will not go back to LaTeX because I don't use lots of complex math equations. If you do very complex symbols and formatting, LaTeX is the way to go, really!!

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latex

LATEX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  LATEX(1)

NAME

       latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and typesetting

SYNOPSIS

       latex [first-line]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
       Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX - A Document Preparation System.  LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the
       TeX source program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.

       The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their documents, rather than the form.	The ideal, very difficult to real-
       ize, is to have no formatting commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip 2 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is  done
       by specific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.

       The  primary  source  of  documentation	for LaTeX is the LaTeX manual referenced below, and the local guide in the file local-guide.tex or
       local.tex or some such.

       elatex is the e-TeX extended mode version of LaTeX format.

       lambda is the Omega version of the LaTeX format.

       pdflatex is the pdfTeX version of the LaTeX format.

       On some systems latex209 and slitex are available for compatibility with older versions of LaTeX.  These should not be used for new texts.

SEE ALSO

       amslatex(1), amstex(1), pdflatex(1), pdftex(1), tex(1).

       Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 020115790X.

       Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams,  David  Carlisle,  and  Chris  Rowley,  LaTeX  Companion,  Addison-Wesley,  2004,  ISBN
       0201362996 (2nd edition).

       LaTeX  Graphics	Companion,  available as part of a boxed set: The LaTeX Companions, Revised Boxed Set : A Complete Guide and Reference for
       Preparing, Illustrating, and Publishing Technical Documents (2nd Edition), by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,  Sebastian  Rahtz,  Helmut
       Kopka, Patrick W. Daly (Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0321269446).

Web2C 2012							    14 May 2010 							  LATEX(1)