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(1), (7), (9) and (10) are directly related to the compilation step I was talking about. Of course the iterations are slower, and of course a little error in the source code will break the whole document. Also, (1) is a feature, not a bug: LaTeX is designed to separate presentation from content. It is supposed to be trusted as far as "look" is concerned. Exceptions are few and far between. (2), (4), (6) and (12) are off topic: I was assuming LaTeX was already installed, like word often is. DVI files can be viewed by evince, which makes it as easy as a pdf file (and no, the absence of a reasonable default document viewer on Windows does not count). Counting words isn't the word processor's job. HTML doesn't solve the same problem as Word and LaTeX. I already said (8): "It is also less discoverable". Plus, LaTeX aware editors (like TeXmaker) do have those menus, making (8) false when you use them. I don't understand (3). I just use the pretty default fonts, and that's it. Unlike Times New Roman, they're good enough. I never needed to mess with them. Did you? (5) and (11) are fair enough. LaTeX suffer from the fact that it is just a bunch of TeX macros. I believe even Leslie Lamport would describe it as an ugly hack. TeX need better front-ends. A set of mark-up languages, of limited purposes each, would be great. Markdown could be a good start. |