Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <1988Oct23.004659.20720@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5498@juniper.uucp> <3884@encore.UUCP> <12834@oberon.USC.EDU> <198@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 88 00:46:59 GMT

In article <198@daitc.daitc.mil> jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger) 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?

Name three printers that accept TeX input.  Like it or lump it, PostScript
is clearly the de facto standard for a printer control language for
sophisticated typesetting for the foreseeable future.  TeX is Yet Another
Old Batch-oriented Text Formatter.
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