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From: per@kps.UUCP (FES)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <334@kps.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 07:50:05 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5498@juniper.uucp> <3884@encore.UUCP> <12834@oberon.USC.EDU> <198@daitc.daitc.mil>
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In article <198@daitc.daitc.mil> jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger) writes:
>In article <12834@oberon.USC.EDU> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
>>a program to convert Mathematica output to
>>publication-quality PostScript description.
>
>Why not to TeX instead?  It's less device dependent, licenses need not
>be obtained from Adobe, and it can be interchanged to a larger variety
>of systems.  And it makes use of an existing system of mathematical
>typography; why reinvent the wheel?
>
>-- Jon


Oh, come on! You must realise that even simple stuff like wheels have
gone through some improvments over the years. And surely, text processing
systems too. Face it, TeX *is* outdated since a few years.

Per


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