From c8b1a38fe22aaa8e4f6cf3e1dee97863b586679d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JoseĢ Mota Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 01:06:33 +0100 Subject: Convert several old posts to markdown. --- ...sor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown (limited to '_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown') diff --git a/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown b/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5215d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2008-04-21-latex-the-word-processor-for-engineers-and-smart-people-too.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: LaTeX - the word processor for engineers (and smart people too) +tags: [ design, development ] +published: true +--- + +When i met [Nuno Job](http://nunojob.wordpress.com), we had a great +time talking about technology and its future. He told me about +[LaTeX](http://latex-project.org), a logical structure word processor. +It allows people to write documents, books, reports, articles, you name it, +through proper source code. This means a lot of things to me: + +* The code stays organized, which means the result document stays organized. +* No templates; or in other words, one single template. +* Want to pass the document through the network? Just a few KB instead of + almost 1MB...! + +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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf