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From: Charlie Geyer
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 04:04
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 04:04
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In article <1168@aipna.ed.ac.uk> rjc@don (Richard Caley) writes: > Ok, why do people think TeX is good for doing math? What am I missing? > Why is it causing me hours of headaches to get LaTeX ( maybe plain TeX > is better? ) to let me do other than trivial formulae in a semi-readable > manner? Because it is. In TeX or LaTeX or AMS TeX one can typeset mathematics better than it used to be done by hand except at a very few of the best publishing houses. Nothing else even comes close. I have seen two dozen students learn LaTeX here, and it does not seem to be difficult as long as there are some experienced users around to ask questions. If the LaTeX manual is your only source of information, that may be your problem. Read the sections on typesetting mathematics in the TeXbook. There's no need to switch to plain TeX, almost all of it works in LaTeX.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!mica!charlie From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i Message-ID: <2147@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> Date: 6 Aug 89 04:04:55 GMT References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <77900017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1168@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu Reply-To: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) Organization: UW Statistics, Seattle Lines: 21