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>>>>> On 18 Nov 89 09:02:19 GMT, piaw@soda.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon-Piaw) said:

 > The other objections I have about LaTeX is that:
 > 	1)	It's too fragile for what I want to play with.
 > 	2)	The only way to understand how it does what it does
 > 		is to read that HUGE file that has all the code in it,
 > 		and that's not something that appeals to me.
 > 	3)	The LaTeX manual is not half as well written as the TeXbook.
you have some valid points; its worth noting that the proposals for
the new version of LaTeX include a) getting rid of the need for
\protect anywhere, and b) making the code more modular, for people to
take out the bits they want, such as cross-referencing.

The LaTeX Book is a manual for writers, not macro-writers; it is not
comparable to the TeX book, which is (in _my_ view) at all a good
reference book, however entertaining and full of brilliance it may be.

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