[nfbcs] latex benefits

[Doug Lee]

1970's? Wow! I learned about it in the late 80's and loved it; used it for college coursework and got some profs that used it to send me homeworks in LaTeX files instead of hard copy or images. PicTeX was hard to use then
because of how much memory it required, but I may have used that module a time or two to generate graphs and such. I think I stopped using LaTeX soon after the conversion from \documentstyle to \documentclass though, so I'm
sure there's a lot I'd have to relearn were I to have occasion to use it again. Still, when I updated a four-year-old Cygwin installation earlier this week, I consciously made sure to include TeX/LaTeX in the set of installed
packages.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:42:32PM -0600, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
LaTex is a complex document processing and typesetting application that is uniquely suited for blind users in my opinion. While the learning curve is steep the results you will get out of LaTex and it's parent TeX are without equal in quality.

It is perfectly possible to generate database diagrams, math expression or even music scores in LaTeX/TeX. There are addin modules to do all that and more. IT is suited for blind users because it is a code based system in which one composes the work in a text editor and then processes the code to generate the PDF typeset file.

I have used LaTex since the 1970's and it has never failed me yet. HArd to learn but well worth the effort.

Greg Kearney
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Andy B. via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Someone recommended that I should start using latex. Is this true, and if
> so, what are the benefits?
> 
> 
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