Writing a book w/F16?

[suvayu ali]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:09, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides which, most WYSIWYG systems run a poor second to TeX/LaTeX when
> it comes to the excellence of the final result, and if there's any
> mathematical content there's no contest. There's a reason most
> mathematicians and physicists use LaTeX. The irony is that once you
> learn a few basics, LaTeX is also easier and quicker for writing those
> 1-page memos!

If the OP is an Emacs user, then org-mode[1] for Emacs might be a good
candidate to abstract out all the LaTeX nitty gritties. For what its
worth, I wrote my masters thesis using it.

[1] <http://orgmode.org/>

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