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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
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Subject: Re: FORM, nice but...
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Date: 10 Dec 89 14:48:42 GMT
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In article <17700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
a sensible fellow named William David Haas writes:

 | But.... you shouldn't distribute the .dvi.  If someone can print the dvi
 | file
 | he probably can create it given the .tex file.  I would suggest including
 | 
 | raw text doc file - ain't pretty but it works.
 | .tex file	  - those who want to create and print the dvi file can
 | 
 | this makes the distribution smaller and is just as useful
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This makes it MORE useful.  

It is a big advantage to be able to extract examples of code from the text.

A second advantage (for me) is that if I chose to do so, I may select
a style that prints a different size of page, more closely approximating
a size of paper available to me.  (A5 is not one of them).

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