From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:40:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011214173328.E0F9D199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
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i've found that troff -mpm produces rather nice output,
even compared to TeX.
unfortunately it's not in the current distribution (partly
because the pm postprocessor is in C++)
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:04:29 GMT
Message-ID: <3C1A278D.6F117C50@null.net>
paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es 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).
I've used both. Generally, TeX produces somewhat nicer-looking
output, but I find eqn|tbl|troff easier to use. The DWB (troff)
suite is certainly more "toolkit oriented" and has a variety of
nice "small language" preprocessors for specialized tasks such
as drawing graphs, plotting, chemical symbols, etc. Either
system is vastly better than something like Microsoft Word.
next reply other threads:[~2001-12-14 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-14 17:40 forsyth [this message]
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Ralph Corderoy
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2001-12-18 0:37 okamoto
2001-12-17 8:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
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
2001-12-14 17:59 bwc
2001-12-14 1:42 geoff
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
2001-12-13 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
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
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