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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why troff?
Message-ID: <638@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 21:27:48 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.638
Posted: Wed Feb  4 21:27:48 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 03:37:33 EST
References: <362@linus.UUCP> <588@eneevax.UUCP>
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Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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Keywords: TeX, troff

In article <588@eneevax.UUCP>, mcgraw@eneevax.UUCP (Timothy J. McGraw) writes:
> nroff/troff has served the mainframe publishing world well,
> especially at such installations as large daily newspapers where you
> find little technical text and need for output better than any laser
> printer can offer today.

TeX is not restricted to any specific output device.  There can be and
undoubtably are programs that can happily drive a phototypesetter from
TeX DVI files.  The TeXbook was done with TeX, and I'm sure
Addison-Wesley didn't use 200-300dpi laser printer output as their
camera-ready copy.

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