[nfbcs] latex benefits

Wed Jan 25 13:31:39 UTC 2017

Greg
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Nancy Coffman via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

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> > On Jan 24, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Greg Kearney via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > TeX and LATex have been around since the late 1960's it was well
> developed when I was using it in the mid to late 1970's.
> >
> > A funny story. When I wrote my thesis in college I had a professor who
> was a bit of a crank. He was known for telling students that they needed to
> resubmit their work with the citations done in what ever style they had not
> used. This being the days of typewriters this would cause a near panic.
> >
> > Using TeX I printed out my thesis in every citation style I could think
> of. I put all the copies into my bag and went off for my review. The old
> coot looked it over and then decided I needed my citations in some other
> form or another. I reached into my bag and handed him the whole thesis done
> in that citation style and informed him I had it all in a dozen other
> citation styles if he cared to have a look at them.
> >
> > I'm sure he thought I must have spent forever typing up all these copies
> when all I really did was change one line of code at the start of the
> document and tell TeX to reprocess the file over and over again.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >> On Jan 24, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Doug Lee via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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