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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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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:04:29 GMT

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.
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