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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why troff?
Message-ID: <640@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 22:06:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 22:06:34 1987
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Keywords: TeX, troff

In article <765@nrcvax.UUCP>, terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad) writes:
> I love troff.  I tell it exactly what to do, and it does it.  I like
> the complete control and flexibility it gives me.  I can get it to do
> anything I want it to do, and as I use it more I am constantly
> learning more about it.

I love TeX.  I tell it exactly what to do, and it does it.  I like the
complete control and flexibility it gives me.  I can get it to do
anything I want it to do, and as I use it more I am constantly
learning...waitaminnit, haven't I heard this before?

Yes, they are both powerful systems.  Each one has its priesthood and
fanatical followers.  Whatever you want to do, you can probably manage
to do it in either one (though depending on what it is, one of them may
do it more easily than the other).  Please, use whichever one works
better for you and don't try to convert the other fanatical followers.
It is a waste of time and annoys the people paying for the bandwidth.

					der Mouse

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