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Article #39162Re: (La)TeX for the Mac
From: gillies
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 18:15
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 18:15
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/* Written 1:58 pm Mar 7, 1989 by ggiergiel@vmsa.cf.uci.edu in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
I will finish with a word of advise. Do not use TEX on
any machine MAc or otherwise. After all it was written in early 70's for
primitive 7-bit computers, with crimminally crude interface. About the only
place TEX is still acceptable in late 80's is automatic typesetting of
data base output.
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I don't understand this comment. TEX is meant to produce beautiful
mathematics. It does this better than any computer typesetting
program available to the public (as far as I know). I am referring to
mainframe unix programs such as troff and scribe, and PC programs such
as MS-Word (which sets the standard for ugly math).
TEX is not really designed to be a friendly word processor or a page
layout program or a WYSWYG program. But it does mathematics very well.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies
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