Re: Steinberg's progress report on new notation software

[Urs Liska]

Am 08.08.2013 17:40, schrieb Brian Barker:
> At 10:32 08/08/2013 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
> > I use LibreOffice because the default operation for text is fine.  If 
> > I was writing out complex math equations, it'd be a different story.
>
> Surely not: you'd use LibreOffice's Math facility!
>
> Brian Barker
I think the questions are:
- Is the quality of output relevant for my application?
Word processors just _can't_ produce professionally typeset documents.
But if the documents aren't used for publication or presentation this 
may not be relevant.

- What is the maintainability and transparency of plain text files worth 
compared to the (seemingly) added complexity.
If I produce 40 pages of documents each day I think there should be a 
sufficient amount of 'common behaviour' to make setting up a structured 
text-based, versioned work-flow a worthwile investment.
But if these pages are quite different (or even randomly structured) and 
are more or less for one-day use it probably isn't worth it.

Urs