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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:07:54 +0000
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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