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From: maschler@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (MICHAEL MASCHLER)
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Subject: Re: Using TeX, and 132 column verbatim text?
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In article <1991Jan11.174901.6071@csrd.uiuc.edu>, eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Vi
ctor Eijkhout) writes...
>Douglas.Miller@viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) writes:
>
>>You should use LaTeX or DOCUMENT, not TeX
>
>Using LaTeX is using TeX. You probably mean 'plain TeX'.
>No one uses pure TeX (perhaps Vax Document dumps that. I don't know).
>
>Victor.

I would like to take issue with the last statement: I use AMSTEX quite
regularly, which is very convenient to type mathematical texts,
and I plan to add to it Lams-TeX, which enables one to add Latex features
to AMSTEX. However, almost in any paper that I write, there are needed
parts that cannot be done by these packages (or can only be done with
great difficulty and awkwardly. In such cases I always switch to plain.tex.
Judging from the many questions I see in comp.text.tex and other places,
of the type "how do you do this and that in Latex?" I would answer -- switch
to plain TeX.

Michael