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From: gswan@watpix.waterloo.edu (Geo Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for a techincal word processing program.
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Date: 13 Apr 89 05:30:02 GMT
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SoftQuad, a firm in Toronto, modified troff a few years ago.
Two main differences between their version and AT&Ts version are that
they replaced ditroffs device independent language with a (better) one
of their, and that they modified the the input language so that it
would understand names longer than two characters.

This is a very solid product.  The changes they made were well
thought out, not a hack.  The documentation is very good.

There is an MSDOS version available.  I have used it.  I liked it.

The work I did using it was for an University press.  I helped
translate books that had been written using (Yuch) WordStar into
good-looking type.  (trickier than you might imagine!)  The two books
I worked on contained many tables but no equations.  The package
comes with eqn, pic & co.

I have no commercial connection with SoftQuad.  Their address is:

	SoftQuad
	720 Spadina
	Toronto Ontario

Cordially,
Geo Swan