laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP (10/12/84)
From: furuta@uw-june.arpa (Richard Furuta) [Editor's note: Once again, let me ask usenix sites to please MAIL laser-lovers articles to uw-beaver!laser-lovers---the address in the header of the article. Posting your message means it doesn't get to half of the list. --Rick ]] Relay-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: uw-june!uw-beaver!tektronix!ogcvax!hp-pcd!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!sun!billc From: billc@sun Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: TeX and scribe timings Message-ID: <1720@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 16:55:36 PDT Article-I.D.: sun.1720 Posted: Tue Oct 2 16:55:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:04:57 PDT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 {} I ran one chapter of a report through both scribe and the LaTeX macros (the conversion was easy, by the way). The demands made of the formatter were pretty much standard stuff: several footnotes, frequent font changes, space for two figures. No index entries. The whole thing, including title page, TofC, LofF amounted to 14 pages formatted. The machine was a sun, the printer an imagen. The following are from the 'time' command. scribe LaTeX user: 75.6 51.0 sys: 15.8 5.6 in: 188 149 out: 46 42 shared: 73+67 40+77