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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: (La)TeX for the Mac
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Date: 11 Mar 89 21:15:10 GMT
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TeX documents, when printed on a 300 dpi printer, look as close to
professionally typeset documents as word processor documents look like letters
to mom.  There is no comparison.

Harder to get up to speed?  You bet.  Worth the trouble?  Not for letters to
mom but for scientific articles destined for publication or theses, no doubt
about it.

TeX isn't WYSIWYG, there is no agrument there.  But then my experience with
MS Word 3.0x suggests it isn't either. 



Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331          Tele: (503) 754-4631