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From: pgiltner@epas.toronto.edu (Phil Giltner)
Subject: Re: Mathematical & scientific characters.
Message-ID: <1991May6.123733.29103@epas.toronto.edu>
Summary: TeX, Expressionist 
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
References: <19851@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 12:37:33 GMT


	For a year or so, I wound up doing scientific typing at MIT,
where I was introduced to two mac tricks for scientific/mathematical
output. One was Expressionist, which comes as a DA & application. Just
point & click, and it does the rest. Then just paste into your MS Word
document, and VOILA!. This was very easy and put out terrific quality stuff.

	There were others who used Tex for the Mac, which produced
beautiful output, and I understand its out put is readily transferable
from platform to platform. However, it isn't WYSIWYG in the input
stage, and certainly isn't very mac-like in its interface.

	But, I found many people who said the first method was very
acceptable. It is a bit tricky playing with line spacing, but by
customizing your menu in Word, you can make it relatively painless.

Philip Giltner
Department of History
University of Toronto
PGILTNER@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA