| >>> "LateX is slow, inconsistent and needs to be ran multiple times to give a correct result"
> It is not slow, it runs in under a second on most documents I have authored. Slow? I don't know about that, but compared to what? Even in word it does need some time to reach the "Save as PDF" menu, right? >> "Inconsistent"
> I'm not sure what tinco meant by this, but it does in fact return the same results for the same file across multiple runs. Well, there is some truth about this. There is an odd naming scheme if you look at stuff like "enumerate", "itemize" and "description" - beginners get confused by this as they assume it would be called "describe". The same goes for most of the packages. This is somehow historical, but I think it also makes it unnecessary hard to figure out LaTex for beginners, right? Also the reason why LaTex needs several runs to finally create the full document. Nowadays you would do this differently I guess as there is simply no need to start the program twice if the application would be smart enough to call sub-programs (like biblatex) by itself on the fly. It would still run the same routine several times, but users wouldn't see it and it would be one command for them to build the document. That's another point beginners tend to go crazy about :) Having said that, I should add that I'm using LaTex (and XeLaTex, etc.) daily and there isn't a single program matching the power and beauty of it - I even design covers for my publications with it. But I'm able to use vim and emacs, right? 90% of the people are bloody beginners and it would be a shame to hide the beauty of a LaTex document from them. >> "It's syntax is ugly." Yeah, well...ugly is a bad term to discuss about. I like it and I think the syntax is way cleaner than reStructured text :D |
what is unclean about rST in your opinion?