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Article #6811Re: FORM, nice but...
From: L.J.Dickey
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1989 14:48
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1989 14:48
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In article <17700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
a sensible fellow named William David Haas writes:
| But.... you shouldn't distribute the .dvi. If someone can print the dvi
| file
| he probably can create it given the .tex file. I would suggest including
|
| raw text doc file - ain't pretty but it works.
| .tex file - those who want to create and print the dvi file can
|
| this makes the distribution smaller and is just as useful
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This makes it MORE useful.
It is a big advantage to be able to extract examples of code from the text.
A second advantage (for me) is that if I chose to do so, I may select
a style that prints a different size of page, more closely approximating
a size of paper available to me. (A5 is not one of them).
--
L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!maytag!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: FORM, nice but... Message-ID: <2829@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 10 Dec 89 14:48:42 GMT References: <274@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1103891319123100@thelake.UUCP> <13401@s.ms.uky.edu> <17700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25