From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
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References: <20011214173328.E0F9D199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:15:29 +0000
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Hi,

> > 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.
>
> 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++)

What's tmac.pm and the pm postprocessor?


Ralph.