Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!myers From: myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Why is TeX so Great? (want info) Keywords: tex report Message-ID: <39799@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 16 Nov 90 05:09:55 GMT References: <1990Nov16.002618.5885@csis.dit.csiro.au> Organization: Center for Relativity, University of Texas Lines: 19 In article <1990Nov16.002618.5885@csis.dit.csiro.au> ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) writes: >>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. I wrote the TeXsis macro package for typesetting physics papers, but learned afterwards that one physicist's wife had used it to typeset her Ph.D. thesis -- in English Literature, I think. TeX is useful for mathematics, but it's useful for more mundane typesetting jobs as well. -- Eric Myers "Frankie say '\relax'" Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin myers@emx.utexas.edu | myers@utaphy.bitnet | myers@ut-emx.UUCP