Re: Why troff?

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From: Tom Hofmann
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1987 09:54

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In article <485@bobkat.UUCP>, m5d@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally ) writes:
> I am certain, however,
> that TeX output looks better.  It is clear to me that TeX works
> much harder than troff at setting paragraphs nicely.  In fact, I think
> that troff just does line-at-a-time justification (I could be wrong).

You are right, one main advantage of TeX is that it breaks whole
paragraphs, not only lines, and uses many parameters to do that.
(You can modify them, if necessary.) So TeX does indeed typesetting,
and not only word processing (like troff).

Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, Basle, Switzerland
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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 04:54:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 04:54:43 1987
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Keywords: TeX, troff
Summary: TeX does more

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