From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) Subject: Re: DOS emulation under PD unix.. Date: 27 Sep 1992 03:11:21 GMT
tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
> TeX may be an obscure macro language but it's output certainly doesnt
>leave much to be desired. it's output is far better than Word for Windows
>anyway which does a very poor job of justifying lines. many books and
>journals are typeset straight from TeX DVI files (especially by Addison-
>Wesley and Springer-Verlag)..something one would never use Word for.
> perhaps it's just the computer modern font you dont like? use something
>else! TeX (and XFree86) supports PostScript Type 1 fonts just fine.
>
> thomas
>ps i moved from mswindows to Lunix precisely for an adequate typesetting
>environment; granted, my concern wasnt with advertizing layouts, etc
Does anyone really want to remember some obscure macro to do something like
create a footnote? Ancient PC software like PC-Write used to use imbedded
commands like TeX does, but software in DOS-land has since evolved beyond
the Precambrian. I'm still amazed that UNIX which has such fine development
tools has such primitive applications... maybe because most UNIX users
write code but don't run apps? This is not a cut at the Tex enthusists out
there - you have my admiration (& sympathy) to write your 500 page dissertationswith what is basically an expanded nroff :).
TeX does have a future - as an output format created by wysiwyg X editors...
.