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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 14:47:57 EST
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There's a deeper reason I'm considering staying with troff: ASCII
output compatibility.  Nroff provides a handy ASCII-printer and screen
previewer for my documents (even tables), and you can't write UN*X
man(1) pages with TeX (because the output isn't readable with more(1)).
When I want BOTH ASCII output and typeset-quality output from one
input document, TeX doesn't provide the answer.

You may have noticed that I am trying to find the answer in TeX, but
my search has been fruitless so far.

Also, a note for the person asking about tables: LaTeX makes tables
LOTS easier.

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