Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:08:07 +0200 From: Morten Liebach <morten@hotpost.dk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX and LaTeX [WAS: MUA stuff] Message-ID: <20010414190807.A6328@hotpost.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:54:34PM %2B0200 References: <200104140037.RAA25643@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <20010413184931.A4752@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010414125434.C40759@lpt.ens.fr>
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On 14, Apr, 2001 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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 Yeah, it's good, though I have experienced a strange problem with the look of the fonts when viewing the .pdf in windows. They look out-of-focus in a way, but they print very well (on the nice HP printers we have at work :-). I really don't know why ... but I have used pdflatex for mailing things to windows users I wanted to look nice, and haven't heard any complaints. > Anyway, most people I've corresponded with can view postscript. Or at > least print it. I personally know of only one windows user that can do that! ;-) > 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... Oh yes, I still remember the pain of word and excel for a 90+ pages tecnical report. *ouch!* HAND Morten -- lynx -source http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach/pgpkey.html | gpg --import - UNIX, reach out and grep someone! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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