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Re: e-mail format(t)ing and the 7 work energy relationships



At 2:11 PM -0600 3/28/97, John D. Sample wrote:

I'm a LaTeX fan too. The only disadvantage I can see is the inability to
send pictures easily. As far as I know, the picture capability is somewhat
platform dependent and on my Mac version of Texures I'm pretty sure the
pics are stored in the resource fork of the files.

LaTeX is no worse than other formats for that, I'd say. Maybe encapsulated
postscript (LaTeX's favorite) isn't the way to go, but for pictures we
could _still_ go with jpeg or gif, even with the text and formulas in LaTeX
format. Separate attachments for jpeg or gif (or make them available on a
web page).

Other than that, I'd go with TeX.

I say we still should. LaTeX seems to have all the advantages of rtf and
more (including the fact that LaTeX can be read directly in ASCII for
simple equations).

As for the learning curve, I think most of that is formatting. The math
symbols are pretty straightforward.

Agreed! And good point. The math part itself isn't that hard to learn,
and for our purposes we don't have to mess around with the other finer
points of formatting paragraphs and pagebreaks for the text.

Chip

Larry