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Re: installation party



Ira Abramov wrote:

> > (BTW. why not TeX?)
> 
> A. I don't know TeX
> B. it's not Wysiwyg, there's a point when one stops being a snob and uses
> the better product, even if it only runs on the less favourable platform.

Just to set things right - TeX was designed as a _technical_ formatting
system, mainly for scientific usage. As such, it is probably still the
best tool around - certainly much superior to Word. It may not be
suitable for your needs, though, which is a different story altogether.

> C. I don't think my printer will accept a TeX file, let alone a non-MSDOS
> diskette.

That's really a minor problem. The output of TeX is *.dvi, which is
easily converted to *.ps by dvips. If your printer does not speak
postscript (most laser printers do) you can always filter the .ps file
through ghostscript.

Sorry for the off-topicness of my remarks, but I felt obliged to stand
up and defend TeX ;-)

Tuvik

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