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Article #6916Re: Why learn Tex?
From: Guangliang He
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 20:31
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 20:31
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In article <597@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> lamarche@s1.UUCP (Louis Lamarche) writes: |I am a Word(4.0) user on the Macintosh. Typically, I produce scientific reports |having ~100 pages. Scientific equations are handle with a program called |Expressionist (very WYSIWYG oriented) from which I cut and paste. On the |other side, I work with peoples pleased with Tex and Latex. | |I am not convinced to switch to Tex or LaTex, for the following reason: | |o In my opinion figures help to understand a subject. |o Tex and LaTex do not handle figures easily, so peoples dont put figures | in their documents. (This is what I see) |o Sometimes a figure may equal a thousand of words :-) | Yes, figures are important. And TeXtures (Mac Version of TeX) does handle figures well. Probably easier than Word. ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!orstcs!mist!ghe From: ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu (Guangliang He) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Why learn Tex? Message-ID: <16394@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 2 Mar 90 20:31:08 GMT References: <E5f$a51@cs.psu.edu> <90059.234829GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> <597@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: ghe@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He) Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 18