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diff --git a/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.html b/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c160e15 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.html @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: LaTeX - the word processor for engineers (and smart people too) +tags: +- Design +- Development +status: publish +type: post +published: true +meta: + _edit_last: '1' +--- +When i met <a href="http://nunojob.wordpress.com">Nuno Job</a>, we had a great time talking about technology and its future. He told me about <a href="http://latex-project.org">LaTeX</a>, a logical structure word processor. It allows people to write documents, books, reports, articles, you name it, through proper source code. <!--more-->This means a lot of things to me: +<ol> + <li>The code stays organized, which means the result document stays organized.</li> + <li>No templates; or in other words, one single template.</li> + <li>Want to pass the document through the network? Just a few KB instead of almost 1MB...!</li> +</ol> +Despite the LaTeX distribution being larger than a CD (at least for Mac OS, the Windows version is slightly smaller), it's worth it, especially if you're in a team in which everyone has to write a piece of a written delivery. I remember I had to spend almost two hours to format every piece into one big furball. Sounds kind of messy, huh? Try gathering up a team, each one writes a piece of the document at their own way and then try using LaTeX. Your conclusions should be the same as mine. :D |