Re: Bibliography & ToC placement

[Victor Sudakov]

Robbe Stewart wrote:
> > beginning to become the laughing stock for my MS Word neightbors sitting
> > next to me :-( They can do it.
> 
> Anything they can do, we can do better :)

I do not want to start a flame war, just expressing my opinion.

Lout is great software, because:

1. It is free
2. It is available for Unix.

This is why I use it. 

But if it were commercial and available for Windows only (like Microsoft
Word), it would not be able to compete with Word. I am afraid very few
people would buy it. Not because Word is wysiwyg while Lout is not. Just
because Lout lacks some important things (or I have not found them yet, in
which case my sincere apologies to all Lout users and Lout author.).

Take, for example, the MS Word or WordPerfect concept of styles which is
totally absent in Lout. The idea of defining a style which describes
everything (font size and face, paragraph alignment, line numbering, list
format, language etc etc etc) and then assigning the style to a paragraph
with a single command is so attractive that I am still missing it in Lout. I
am also missing mathematical calculations in tables - this is very useful. I
remember using it a lot when years ago I worked with WordPerfect 5.1 for
DOS, writing big reports.

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