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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Why is TeX so Great? (want info)
Keywords: tex report
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.002618.5885@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 16 Nov 90 00:26:18 GMT
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>English Department. TeX was invented for mathematical typesetting, and
>if you are not interested in math, it probably isn't the best for you

This is not true. I use *TeX a lot for normal formatting needs like
letters and papers, most of which don't even have a whiff of
mathematical symbols.

People who spit out typeset copy from databases also find TeX very
useful as the formatting engine.

The initial learning costs of TeX are higher than a plain old word
processor but if document reuse and style customization is the name of
your game, give TeX a go.