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From: wally@pallas.athenanet.com (Wally Hartshorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: TeX (was Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?)
Summary: How can TeX do all that automatically?
Keywords: WordPerfect, TeX
Message-ID: <517@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 13 Jan 91 19:15:48 GMT
References: <8133@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <510@pallas.athenanet.com> <1991Jan12.223304.28382@contact.uucp>
Reply-To: wally@pallas.UUCP (Wally Hartshorn)
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In article <1991Jan12.223304.28382@contact.uucp> ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng) writes:
>Unlike a WYSIWYG system, such as WP5 or a page layout program, TeX
>handles all the kerning, paragraphing, spacing, margins, page breaks,
>indenting, centering, and other subtle details automatically.  Title
>pages, Abstracts, Tables of Contents, List  of Figures, List of
>Tables, Chapters, Sections, Subsections, Bibliographies, References,
>footnotes, figures, tables, references to numbering of
>tables/figures/etc, ALL numbering (page, chapter, section, etc.), and
>virtually everything else is all done for you.

I know very little about TeX.  You say it does all of this stuff
automatically?  How could it do that?  I'm confused.  Suppose I say
that I want a table of contents.  I still have to go through and tell
it what to include in the table of contents, right?  How is that any
different from the way WordPerfect does things?

There are some nice WYSIWYG word processors for the Amiga, but none of them
seem to have all of the features of Word Perfect.

Do you know what the list price of AmigaTeX is?
-- 
Wally (uunet!pallas!wally or wally@athenanet.com)

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