From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 25 11:17: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [216.229.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C34A37B424 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@binary.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (matrix.binary.net [216.229.0.2]) by nu.binary.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CAF9C1E1; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:17:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: by matrix.binary.net (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 459C88341E; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:16:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:16:53 -0400 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brooks Davis , Don Tyson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX and LaTeX [WAS: MUA stuff] Message-ID: <20010425141652.B70786@rtfm.net> References: <200104140037.RAA25643@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010413184931.A4752@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:54:34PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I'm not suggesting it's a serious alternative to MS word for most > people. But several people wrote "there's nothing as good as MS > office". So I was just pointing out that MS Word still lags behind > Knuth's 20 year old program and Lamport's 17 year old macro package > in many respects... Word and TeX are two totally different programs with different purposes; the former is a 'word processor' while the latter is a 'typesetting system'. I like some LaTeX documentation that calls word processors "glorified typewriters." That's pretty much what they are, compared to TeX. > R -- Nathan Dorfman [http://www.rtfm.net] "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message