LaTeX is a nice package, but I agree that it would never be adopted.
It is more likely that we who know it would convert the output to PDFs for consumption by the masses. Ease for use, ease for them.
I concur with vivekb. Civilian targets have been important since WWII and much of the military-industrial infrastucture is very important to civilians.
Can we really take the risk of letting people distrupt, either directly or indirectly, the infrastructure that a lot of people rely on? Something that could lead to deaths?
Bridges, oil-refineries and telephone exchanges come immediately to mind. These were heavily targetted in Yugoslavia and Iraq. Medical supplies are often subject to trade sanctions.
Nobody would seriously suggest that warfare is simply an engagement between professional representative forces but it seems that we often show traces of that idea. The whole population is affected by war and all reasonable advantages should be taken. That said, certain extremes such as nuclear warfare should be considered very skeptically and conventions prohibited their use should be welcomed and respected.
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You complain about litter while crapping into the well! Smog is a clear and obvious problem, but will kill and displace far fewer people.
Here is a starter page on one method to produce PDFs - http://zandtwerk.insead.fr/tex2pdf.html
Nobody would seriously suggest that warfare is simply an engagement between professional representative forces but it seems that we often show traces of that idea. The whole population is affected by war and all reasonable advantages should be taken. That said, certain extremes such as nuclear warfare should be considered very skeptically and conventions prohibited their use should be welcomed and respected.
Please No!!
/. doesn't go to bed by mid-afternoon?
How will I get any work done here in New Zealand if
Sounds like a good crew to hook up with though. Good on ya.