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- From: hankduck@postoffice.ptd.net (hankduckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: keep that crap away from my Amiga
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 23:34:17 GMT
- Organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc.
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- MH> People who require good handling of mathematics, or are just
- MH> interested in top-notch typesetting, should look into using TeX and/or
- MH> LaTeX. I use Radical Eye's AmigaTeX, combined with GNU Emacs and
- MH> ispell, for almost everything now. I hardly ever touch my word
- MH> processors (ProWrite, Final Copy II, and Final Writer). I have to use
- MH> Microsoft Word at work, and I hate it.
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- MH> Matt Harrell
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- If I may show my ignorance by asking a question, what is Tex? Can you give
- me a brief rundown on what it is, what it does, and what its advantages are?
- I've heard it spoken of but haven't the slightest inkling of what it's about.
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- Thanks.
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- Cordially;
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- Hank Duckman
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- from beautiful northwest New Jersey where the deer and the bear run free
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- Amiga 2000, GVP '040@33, 64 megs ram PicassoII , Emplant, Opalvision, VLab
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