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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Excellence vs. WordPerfect
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Date: 27 Apr 88 19:35:41 GMT
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Lyle Levine writes:
>			 I
>			 WANT
>			 MATH
>                         TYPESETTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it's available.

The best math typesetting software in the world, bar none,
is TeX (especially with MetaFont). One of the whole reasons
that Knuth cooked up TeX in the first place was that he's really
nitpicky about good mathematical typography.

It's not wysiwyg, but considering that it's the best, so what?
Also no one has ever figured out how to make wysiwyg as powerful
and flexible as compiled-text...there are some difficult design
issues involved.

If you're holding out for wysiwyg anyway, well, good luck. I admit
it'd be nice to have *some* kind of wsyiwyg math. typ. available.


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