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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: nroff/tex
Message-ID: <2240001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 20:25:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 20:25:25 1986
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>The only disadvantage is that things like tbl and pic are missing in TeX.
>eqn is built in and far better in TeX. With effort you can run rings around
>tbl but it takes real work or real help. pic is out of the question unless
>you want to hack postscript. Good luck.

What you are referring to is the default TeX (Plain TeX).  There is a
(precompiled) macro package, LaTeX, which has something like 'pic' and 'tbl'
"built in," as you put it.

Jacob Gore
Northwestern Univ
Comp Sci Research Lab
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