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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: troff or TeX which one to adopt?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 00:56:30 GMT
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Just a couple of corrections.

Somebody said nothing like pic existed in the TeX world. If you have a
license for DWB ditroff, you can get a copy of tpic, which accepts the
same input language. The person to contact, if you have the papers, is
morgan@isi.uci.edu. In a recent TUGBOAT, work on something called
texpic was reported. However, pictures are one thing I prefer WYSIWYG
for.

Somebody said that size and font change commands could not be
separated in TeX. This is not true, you only have to insulate yourself
with an appropriate layer of macros. LaTeX does some of this with its
size and font change commands, but people are working on a more
orthogonal scheme.