Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:58:43 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: icantthinkofone@charter.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice) Message-ID: <1191977923.982.101.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com>
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> 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.
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