Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!ames!uhccux!quonset!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: TeX vs Word (Was Re: When will new WordPerfect..) Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 07:23:10 GMT References: <1991Jan15.192859.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1991Jan16.024225.12117@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <4966@lure.latrobe.edu.au> <1991Jan20.125601.1934@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 23 skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes: >MB> Marc Barrett ( taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu ) writes: >MB> Microsoft Word is, period. Microsoft Word, in one package, includes >MB> ALL the tools that you would ever need to typeset a book. Is that powerful >MB> enough for you? Ah, how proud I am to have my alma mater spawn the likes of marc barret. >Does Iowa State require that thesiis be written >in MS Word or ISU Thesis (a TeX macro language)? ISU Thesis. Ye child. Not long ago (1-3 years) even TeX was not acceptable. Scribe on the NAS (IBM-mainframe clone) or a typewriter was the only thing that Mrs. Bishop would accept. The ComSci department fought a holy war to get TeX the status it now enjoys. Obligatory-Amiga-Relevance-Comment: Get AmigaTeX. I have or had access to *many* implementations of TeX, and none compares to AmigaTeX. -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.