Re: Joining text sections

On 6-Aug-07, at 2:59 PM, Dylan Griffiths wrote:

> jimw wagner wrote:
>>> I think the RTF files have some sort of format header on each
>>> file that makes it hard/impossible to do this without smart tools.
>>>
>>> If you could export the files to TeX, it'd be easy to script
>>> joining those.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks. The trouble is that the texts require some amount of
>> formatting.
>
> TeX has all the formatting you need. It's the best typesetting and
> layout language available, and they do have WYSIWYG editors for it
> as well. Don't confuse TeX with ASCII text.

TeX is great if you want your document to *look* like TeX output.
Otherwise, be prepared to do a PILE of searching and hacking around.

Don't get me wrong; TeX is fantastic, and I used it for most of my
assignments @ university. That being said, it's not really a Swiss
army knife (unless a typical swiss army knife expects you to spend 20
minutes on google to learn how to use each blade)
Received on Tue Aug 7 07:42:12 2007