"Riad S. Wahby" wrote:
Strange that you would go to all the trouble. I'll take emacs and LaTeX2e any day of the week. Who needs WYSIWYG when you can make nicer-looking documents in less time using a Turing-complete document formatting / programming language?
Compatability with Wurd users. A lot of customers, especially suit types, give you Word and Excel files (or, worse, PowerPoint, gag), even when the app is being implemented on *NIX. A fair number of commercial publications want articles and stories to be submitted as Word docs. And sometimes when you're putting in a bid to a corp, they require the proposal both as hardcopy and as Word and Excel files. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato