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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
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Subject: Re: Summary of info received on math equation formatters
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.142236.14143@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:22:36 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <15631@yunexus.YorkU.CA> philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes:


>That being said, I think it is fairly obvious that equation editors are
>not the answer to the problems involved in typing documents of a mathematical
>nature. The issue of in-line equations, and the very idea of an equation
>being treated as a "picture" makes for editing,etc...a difficult task.

As a matter of interest,
has anyone used TeX, and one of these 'equation editors',
and *not* settled for TeX?
TeX/LaTeX is the standard for writing and printing mathematics.
To use anything else is like using EBCDIC, or 9-bit bytes.

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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie