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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 20:47:25 +0200
From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Many bugs in eqn(1)
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> 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!