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From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:47:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <702121034.186262.1407955645294.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail09.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a924e83321d2286f6ba73484dc504a1@quintile.net>

> I still use troff and tbl on plan9, occasionally I use eqn, last week
> for the first time in ages.

What are the bugs in tbl you found?  (I think it had been you who mentioned
it.)

> I know there are some bugs but I find it much easier to generate a simple
> document in troff than with MS Word, its a metter of what you are used to.

You can be sure MS word has bugs too :-)

> I'am sure latex is capable of genatiing better documents, but i have
> never had the need to learn it so I don't use that. Troff is good enough
> for what I need.

Good opinion!



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-13 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-13 10:57 Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 11:34 ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 12:16 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 13:13   ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 13:46     ` tlaronde
2014-08-13 13:31   ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 18:11 ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13 18:47   ` Carsten Kunze [this message]
2014-08-13 19:37     ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13 20:09       ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-14  6:53         ` Steve Simon
2014-08-14 15:01           ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <1209878384.1371392.1407919054269.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net>
2014-08-13  9:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2014-08-13 10:30   ` cam
2014-08-13 10:43     ` tlaronde
2014-08-13 12:22     ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-13 13:36       ` tlaronde
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-12 15:41 Carsten Kunze
2014-08-12 20:46 ` Steve Simon
2014-08-12 21:02   ` Carsten Kunze
2014-08-12 21:08     ` Steve Simon
2014-08-13  7:56 ` Rudolf Sykora

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