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From: ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TeX and professional documentation for the ST
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Date: 13 Dec 89 14:17:54 GMT
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Reply-To: ballier@blnosz.UUCP (Ralph Ballier)
Organization: OSZ Chemie, Physik und Biologie, Berlin
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In article <8912080827.AA01524@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> JOHNBARNES@ENH.NIST.GOV writes:
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>    The recent ruckus about the docs for FORM program has brought to 
>light a lot of misconceptions about TeX.  I personally view *.TeX 
>files as a preferred form of documentations for the following 
>reasons:
[......]
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>4). The output on an SLM804 laser printer is simply beautiful.
>
[......]
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>I must, however, agree with those who feel that Jos. Vermasern should 
>have distributed the .TEX file rather than the .DVI file.  Mr 

I have FORM printed with the SLM804 and ST-TeX, and there were not any
problems and no breaks (except for filling the paper-box).

The ouput ist beautiful, indeed.

The printing-rate was about four pages per minute.


Thanks to Jos. for that very good work.

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