Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:54:34 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX and LaTeX [WAS: MUA stuff] Message-ID: <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr> 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 References: <200104140037.RAA25643@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010413184931.A4752@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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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
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