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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why TeX?
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Date: 2 Jan 89 19:57:14 GMT
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Organization: Penn State Erie, Behrend College
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In article <318@imuse.uucp>, ed@imuse.uucp (Ed Braaten) says:
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>What are the advantages of using TeX over nroff/troff? I've heard

TeX is to *roff as C is to FORTRAN.

That is, TeX and the roff family are powerful in the hands of an expert,
but TeX is more streamlined and elegant, and offers a few features (better
math notation support).