Re: Why troff?

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From: Wayne A. Christopher
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1987 18:47

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The one thing I've heard that troff is better than TeX with is tables -- 
I've used tbl a lot and it seems to work fine, but others who have used
TeX's table-making facilities complain that they are not very convenient.
(Are there any good macro packages for tables in TeX?) Other than that,
it's just inertia...  Also, what sort of self-respecting UNIX hack would
use a text formatter written in Pascal?  :-)

	Wayne

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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 13:47:03 EST
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