Re: [MacPerl] OT emacs & TeX/LaTeX

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jay Bedsole wrote:

> No one mentioned Alpha when they were talking about LaTeX
> editors. This could be because it's crap, or it could be an
> oversight. I've never had to use it that way, but I know that
> LaTeX was the reason Alpha was invented in the first place -
> so it might be worth looking into.

No, it's certainly not crap. :-) Alpha is _my_ editor of choice on MacOS
(started with 6, and now have 7.1.5.) It is my MacPerl editor, to start
with, and I'm very satisfied with it.

I may be one of the few people that doesn't even have a word-processor.
Not WordPerfect, not Word. Not anything. I use LaTeX - Alpha to write and
CMacTeX to process. Self-explanatory if you realize that I started out on
Unix. Alpha does a fine job.

Incidentally, since we're talking LaTeX, I should thank Paul Schinder for
steering me onto LyX. Just installed that over the weekend on MkLinux.
Nice looking piece of software. I'm a vi guy at heart (I can do emacs, but
vi is what I'm good with), but I'm not a masochist either. :-) LyX looks
real promising.

Speaking ofdocs, it caught my eye over the weekend also that the Perl
Cookbook was written in pod, of all things (translated to troff for review
printing, to Framemaker for final proofs). And one author used vi, the
other emacs.

Tenuous connection to MacPerl, but personally I think editor choice is
tied to everything a programmer does. Programs and docs. A great text
editor won't help a bad programmer, but a terrible editor will certainly
hurt a great programmer.

Arved



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