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Re: Unix
On Thu, 21 May 1998, David Ross wrote:
> >Now I admit to using vi for a lot of stuff, but wp is not one of them.
> >You seem to have a somewhat perverted sense of humor!
>
> Of course vi is a text editor, not a word processor, but when
> combined with a typesetting system like TeX it is a fine tool
> for producing beautiful publication-quality documents. I know
> many people who still use this combination (as I do when I'm
Someone coming from a WYSIWYG environment probably won't be very
happy with TeX or LaTeX. TeX uses the programmer's paradigm of
code, compile, and execute. In TeX, you write, compile (run TeX
or LaTeX), and view. Plus you have to insert all the formatting
commands by hand.
--
John H. Kim
kim@mak.com
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- Re: Unix
- From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>