dahosek@biivax.dp.beckman.com (04/19/91)
In article <329@usna.NAVY.MIL>, dfr@usna.NAVY.MIL (Prof. David F. Rogers) writes: > Yes, use Plain TeX! Works fine. LaTeX is way to fragile for real work. I don't know. It works plenty fine for me (although I have the advantage of doing TeX for a living, so I'm a bit more intimate with the grunge than most). The key benefit of using LaTeX, actually has nothing to do with the macro package itself. Feel free to dump the LaTeX format if you like, just as long as you retain the LaTeX input conventions which are as close to a complete wide-spread TeX generic markup convention as we have right now. Incidentally, I'd like to see how someone using plain TeX would have a \caption command which generates an automatic list of figures and doesn't have at least as many problems as the LaTeX \caption. -dh -- Don Hosek // Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147 On contract to Beckman Instruments 714-961-4562