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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Which is better?  Textprocessing langs or DeskTop publishing pgms?
Keywords: desktop DTP interleaf tex troff
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Date: 6 Sep 89 19:59:35 GMT
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Hi Bill!

In article <1128@accuvax.nwu.edu> phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
> Chuck Musciano wrote:
>>     You would be crazy to learn a non WYSIWYG package when you are just on the
>>verge of getting a WYSIWYG package.  Troff and TeX are nothing more than arcane
>>programming languages.
>
>Of course, Chuck, there are those who would not agree with that.
>But you knew that, didn't you?

     I suppose you could argue "arcane" but not "programming language".  I
would bet that both troff and TeX are Turing-complete.

     As Bill says, this is a question with no answer.  Your best bet is to
play around with lots of things until you find what you like best.  I still
stand by my assertion that troff and TeX are harder to learn, though,
especially for non-tech types.

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