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From: ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
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Subject: Re: Why learn Tex?
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Date: 2 Mar 90 20:31:08 GMT
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In article <597@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> lamarche@s1.UUCP (Louis Lamarche) writes:
|I am a Word(4.0) user on the Macintosh. Typically, I produce scientific reports
|having ~100 pages. Scientific equations are handle with a program called 
|Expressionist (very WYSIWYG oriented) from which I cut and paste. On the
|other side, I work with peoples pleased with Tex and Latex.
|
|I am not convinced to switch to Tex or LaTex, for the following reason:
|
|o  In my opinion figures help to understand a subject.
|o  Tex and LaTex do not handle figures easily, so peoples dont put figures
|   in their documents. (This is what I see)
|o  Sometimes a figure may equal a thousand of words :-)
|

Yes, figures are important. And TeXtures (Mac Version of TeX)  does handle
figures well. Probably easier than Word. 

ghe@mist.cs.orst.edu