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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: (La)TeX for the Mac
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Date: 10 Mar 89 18:15:00 GMT
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/* Written  1:58 pm  Mar  7, 1989 by ggiergiel@vmsa.cf.uci.edu in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */

I will finish with a word of advise. Do not use TEX on
any machine MAc or otherwise. After all it was written in early 70's for
primitive 7-bit computers, with crimminally crude interface. About the only
place TEX is still acceptable in late 80's is automatic typesetting of 
data base output.

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I don't understand this comment.  TEX is meant to produce beautiful
mathematics.  It does this better than any computer typesetting
program available to the public (as far as I know).  I am referring to
mainframe unix programs such as troff and scribe, and PC programs such
as MS-Word (which sets the standard for ugly math).

TEX is not really designed to be a friendly word processor or a page
layout program or a WYSWYG program.  But it does mathematics very well.


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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