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Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112131313110.19799-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:Alexander Viro's message of 13:21:15 Thursday,13 December 2001
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:19:18 +0100
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Alexander Viro writes:
 > Now, that's hardly fair - you are blaming TeX for ugliness of SCRIBE
 > lookalike written atop of it.  AMSTeX is actually quite nice - for
 > mathematics-related text it wins hands down.  For anything CS-related
 > I'd pick troff, but...

I am wondering... you who criticize *TeX actually write real math
books (lots of formulas, commutative diagrams, integrals with strange
stuff...)  with troff and eqn?... I have found that there is where
they beat any of the other things I have tried (never tried troff though).

(please don't flame... )
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                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

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