Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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The first time I had to write this kind of documents, I tried LaTex and ... and got all the formatting for free without any need for learning menus. You need three commands (more or less).
Text formatting has been a profession for centuries. There are loads of people who worked hard to get these things right. Why reeinvent the wheel by defining it each time for yourself?
The LaTeX standard packages give you enourmous power and control over the content with footnotes, references, citations etc, but leave you alone with the tedious task of defining page breaks that don't come right.