Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 20:36

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In article <1992Aug6.145632.1355@id.dth.dk>, Erik Plesner (ep) writes:

ep> o Ethnic leters almost never translate correctly when files are moved to
ep> workstations/mainframes at the department.

I don't understand how this can ever be a problem, slot X in a
Computer Modern font will be a given character on any platform,
surely? If it's a probem of the (La)TeX input text being displayed (eg
in your editor) differently on different platforms, that is going to
be a problem with any system. 

ep> o Inconveniences of moving .ps files to dept. computers for printing on 
ep> good printers.

Again, this is a general PC problem unless they are networked well
enough to be able to talk to, for instance, the unix printer spooler. 

ep> o Runs out of space when documents reaches a reasonable size.

What a combination, DOS memory brain damage and TeX memory brain
damage at one and the same time :-).

--
rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk	Me? The only thing I ever ran on a PC
			which wasn't excrutiatingly painful was
			688 Attack Sub.

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Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
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