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Re: TeX index program available

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 18:44
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|Richard Stallman of GnuEmacs pointed out that a major weakness of TeX is
|that it does not know how to sort indices, which is quite true. Otherwise

Why should TeX have everything but the kitchen sink? Even Knuth, who
writes large programs, didn't go out and make TeX compile fonts or half
a dozen other things. Making indices is not something ordinary users
use often. Here we have only a couple of users who use makeindex
regularly. (No doubt this proportion is somewhat higher in sites that
do a lot of technical writing.) I would not like to see what is an
already moderately large program (200k or so) bloat with features that
could easily be implemented externally.
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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: TeX index program available
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Date: 8 Dec 89 18:44:44 GMT
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