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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software |
Date: | Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:46:52 +0200 |
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Am 08.08.2013 17:40, schrieb Brian Barker:
At 10:32 08/08/2013 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:I use LibreOffice because the default operation for text is fine. If I was writing out complex math equations, it'd be a different story.Surely not: you'd use LibreOffice's Math facility! Brian Barker
I think the questions are: - Is the quality of output relevant for my application? Word processors just _can't_ produce professionally typeset documents.But if the documents aren't used for publication or presentation this may not be relevant.
- What is the maintainability and transparency of plain text files worth compared to the (seemingly) added complexity. If I produce 40 pages of documents each day I think there should be a sufficient amount of 'common behaviour' to make setting up a structured text-based, versioned work-flow a worthwile investment. But if these pages are quite different (or even randomly structured) and are more or less for one-day use it probably isn't worth it.
Urs
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