From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 01:00:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA54E16A419 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from smtp.wizwire.com (smtp.wizwire.com [209.218.100.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7AB13C44B for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (207-104-43-151.starstream.net [207.104.43.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.wizwire.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9A1044d014975; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:00:04 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke To: icantthinkofone@charter.net Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Sonata Biosciences, Inc. Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:58:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1191977923.982.101.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WizWire-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WizWire-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jahnke@sonatabio.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:00:29 -0000 > And another thing, how do you choose whether to use TeX or troff? > What's the diff? They are different programs that do the same thing. A good comparison might be comparing different compilers, like C and Fortran. Not that one is more like C than the other, just that they have a different language to accomplish similar goals. If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. That is what is used more commonly. There's nothing wrong with troff, and the support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example, accept TeX code but not troff. It is still a good idea to know enough troff to do man pages, though.