From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 14 3:54:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EB437B422 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f3EAsaq17067 ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:54:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id MAA41782 ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:54:34 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brooks Davis Cc: Don Tyson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX and LaTeX [WAS: MUA stuff] Message-ID: <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Brooks Davis , Don Tyson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200104140037.RAA25643@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010413184931.A4752@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010413184931.A4752@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:49:31PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brooks Davis said on Apr 13, 2001 at 18:49:31: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:37:13PM -0400, Don Tyson wrote: > > Agreed -- when you are sending a printed document. But how do you email the TeX > > document to someone who doesn't have TeX on the other end, much less something to view a > > PostScript or .dvi document with? > > pdflatex I agree. And with pdftex/pdflatex you can also embed jpegs, gifs, pngs etc directly into the tex document. Anyway, most people I've corresponded with can view postscript. Or at least print it. 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... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message