From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 21 19:50:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA22853 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22844 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:50:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA22791; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 22:47:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 22:47:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Ruslan Shevchenko cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books In-Reply-To: <349C9CB0.BE5D4BD0@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > As may be evident, I don't like TeX. It's not for want of trying; I > > used it exclusively for several years. Troff was like a breath of > > fresh air. Don't take this as a criticism of lyx; I haven't tried > > lyx, and if it hides the obscenities of TeX well, it could be quite > > useful. > > > > TeX is a world and Tex is a culture. In this it is simular to UNIX. You know, I'd be more likely to use TeX myself, it it just had some better general-purpose macros for it. I really like the mm macros that are available for troff, and I sure wish an equivalent was here for TeX. Don't tell me TeX has macros, I know that, I just wish they weren't all pointed at writing math equations, and stuff I don't do much of. > > > Greg > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------