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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for a techincal word processing program.
Message-ID: <2144@pur-phy>
Date: 13 Apr 89 05:18:01 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
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In article <618@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:
>In article <2057@uwovax.uwo.ca> 16016_1127@uwovax.uwo.ca (John Palmer) writes:
>>	My colleagues, who use a lot of math in their papers, all
>>swear by t-cubed. We got a site license for our dept., and it is the official   
>>department word-processing software. It's wysiwyg, runs in graphics, and
>>apparently has good printer support. 
>
>people who want math support are going to TeX (and I use troff), and
I personally am sold on TeX as the only way to do equations/math text
on a printer.  LaTeX makes TeX very easy to learn.  In addition to the
flexibility of creating your own typesetting styles, you get the extra advantage
of being supported on almost any UN*X box with a licensed version of TeX,
PC's have TeX available, the Amiga has AmigaTeX (which I personally prefer
because is comes with a previewer).  I won't talk about the MACINTOSH, they
seem to have oodles of word processors, of which MS-WORD is not adequate
for producing mathematics, (however, I have seen that MathType is available
with a TeX interface option.  As well, Mathematica has a TeX interface.)

I read earlier that AMS (American Mathematical Society?) supports the
submission of articles in TeX format.  In addition, a journal called
Complex Systems accepts papers in TeX format.  

To be truthful, I haven't used T-cubed.  If Terry Hull is correct that
it takes just as long to get up to speed with T-cubed, then why waste
time with it when TeX is as widely accepted as it is?

Just my 5 cents worth. (inflation you know!)
Bill Murphy