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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: steve@localhost.localdomain
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:07:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112140807.IAA24180@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es of "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:19:18 +0100." <15385.42998.56458.344335@nanonic.hilbert.space>

Gorka wrote:
> 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).

My experience with text processors is the same as with mail clients, editors,
browsers, etc. They all do some things better than all the others, and they
all do some things worse.

steve




  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-14  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-13 17:38 erik quanstrom
2001-12-13 17:51 ` Howard Trickey
2001-12-14 10:15   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:02   ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 18:09     ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:11   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-13 18:18     ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:21     ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-14  7:19       ` paurea
2001-12-14  8:07         ` Steve Kilbane [this message]
2001-12-14 17:04         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 18:55     ` Martin Harriss
2001-12-13 21:20       ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 10:15     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-18  9:47     ` Chet Ramey
2001-12-14  0:39   ` Dan Cross
2001-12-13 19:02 forsyth
2001-12-14 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:37 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-17 10:14   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-14  1:42 geoff
2001-12-14 17:40 forsyth
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-12-14 17:59 bwc
2001-12-14 18:03 rob pike
2001-12-14 17:43 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-14 18:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-14 18:22 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-16 19:41 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-12-17 10:16   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Wladimir Mutel
2001-12-17  8:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-12-18  0:37 okamoto

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