Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: utzoo!telly!evan From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) Subject: Re: Why is TeX so Great? (want info) Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 02:46:38 GMT Message-ID: <2745F60F.2C36@telly.on.ca> Keywords: tex report References: <1990Nov16.002618.5885@csis.dit.csiro.au> In article <1990Nov16.002618.5885@csis.dit.csiro.au> ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) writes: >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. Amen on that last point. I don't know of a single database company's report writer that can handle proportionally-spaced type or font switching easily, and certainly not in a manner that's easily portable between output devices. I have written report scripts in both Empress and Progress which create LaTeX output. Their output looks better and more flexible than anything I could do with the report scripts alone. -- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504 Keep an open mind -- you'll never know what might fall in.