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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: SoftQuad history: Troff vs TeX
Message-ID: <25010@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 19:18:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 19:18:49 1987
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: troff SoftQuad

|Troff's operating mode conforms to UNIX program conventions.  It does
|not ask you for filenames, nor does it put its output into magic
|filenames (InputFileName.dvi, etc).  As a result, it works well in
|pipeplines, resulting in an abundance of pre-processors.

This is a mere interface detail. Unix TeX allows you to type in
the first line as a command argument. It could also be made to
output to stdout. I do wish there was a flag to shut up the
verbose messages though.

	Ken