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From: gaggy@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX
Message-ID: <1168@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 25 Jul 89 15:30:16 GMT
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In article <1552@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> mcclaren@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Tim McClarren) writes:
>
>But then why is it that more and more I pick up a book, flip through a couple
>of pages, and lo & behold, there it is right alongside the copyright and
>Lib. of Congress info -- "This book written and typeset with a Macintosh II
>and Microsoft Word" or some such?  I dunno...maybe I read too much popular
>lit./media, but I've not seen a whole lot of "This book written under vi, and 
>typeset with LaTeX/*roff on Bob & Jim's UNIX(c) box."  

What kind of books do you read??  The only books I've ever seen that were
written and typeset on Mac (or similar) hardware were Mac documentation
and Mac magazines.

I own several books that were written in *roff, mostly UNIX and C books,
but I also have several books, mostly math, written using a variation
on TeX.

Of course, they never do mention that vi was used to edit the text.
Are they ashamed or something?  How about emacs?


-greg

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