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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 01:10:47 EST
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In article <296@skatter.UUCP> kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) writes:
>
>Another thing about troff is: when one needs 10 copies of the same formatted
>output, one has to run troff 10 times (or unless you photocopy). But with TeX,
>you just print the dvi file 10 times, not having to re-process the input file
>again. Or am I wrong about this?

If I understand you correctly, you are wrong.

You can process the file ONCE with troff - and then send the
processed output to the typesetter 10 times, without having to
run troff to reprocess the "raw" file again.


Kathy Vincent @ bakerst.UUCP
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