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From: sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
Message-ID: <6286@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 13:41:32 GMT
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10976@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> 	Oh yeah.  I forgot about AmigaTeX.  That is a very sTudLY package.
> 
> 	However, I hear more about Mac DTP applications than I do about TeX
> in general.  Why is this?  Is it because TeX is a daunting beast, and looks
> like it's difficult to learn?  Hmmmm...
> 
> Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU

For creating your local user group newsletter I recommended sticking with
the WYSIWYG DTP products ... fairly easy to use by the novice,etc ....
When you need to do professional typesetting though, AmigaTeX has no peer.
I used the package for 2-3 weeks with no docs and manage to create a wide
variety of documents that have some folks around here shaking their heads
in disbelief ;-) The package includes LaTeX and a bunch of STYLE files that
that makes it fairly trivial to create articles, letters, reports, books,
slides and other standard formats. As a computer techo-weenie-programmer
type, I've found the TeX environment very comfortable.

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