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From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
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Subject: Re: PCTex/MicroTex
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Date: 22 Apr 91 17:48:52 GMT
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Thanks to all for the many responses about EmTeX.

Mathematician friends of mine had heard that TeX was impossible
to learn until we formatted a page of each of their manuscripts,
only an hour after installing PcTeX.  Each is an academic (hence
poverty stricken), but want TeX on their hard drives now; so
I'll install EmTeX for them.

PcTeX's screen and dot-matrix printer drivers are dated Oct
1989.  The printer driver has several options, including one to
displace the printout on the paper; it has two qualities of
printouts, draft (3 passes a line) and final (6 passes a line).

The default quality is draft, and this is all I need, for I
intended to upload my dvi files to the University mainframe and
use the attached laser printers for my final drafts.  However,
the quality final is of such good quality, that I use my Epson
printer for virtually all my final drafts instead.

ps. I'm providing information, not recommending one TeX over
another.  Thanks for the several letters about EmTeX.

Bruce

Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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