lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (10/27/89)
In article <2601@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A.Hosek) writes: >In article <71781@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Gary Perlman writes: >> while systems like troff and TeX, which have a far smaller market, >>are stangnant. > >Actually, TeX and LaTeX are not stagnant And neither, of course, is troff: AT&T may have frozen Documenter's WorkBench, but companies such as Image Networks, Elan and SoftQuad Inc. are continuing development. Probably SoftQuad have made the most visible changes (all of the vendors retainiong compatibility with older versions as far as I am aware), but none of the products are in any way static. At least two of those companies (Elan and SoftQuad) are on the net. Lee -- Liam R. Quin lee@sq.com or {uunet!utai, utzoo}!lee until Dec. 20 (Just visiting) lee@anduk.co.uk (normally)
rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) (10/28/89)
In article <1989Oct27.013038.20902@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes: >>Actually, TeX and LaTeX are not stagnant > >And neither, of course, is troff: >AT&T may have frozen Documenter's WorkBench, but companies such as Image >Networks, Elan and SoftQuad Inc. are continuing development. Even AT&T's troff isn't stagnant. There's a DWB 3.0 release internal to AT&T (works w/JetRoff), and I received mail from Brian Kernighan this past summer that indicated that he was working on another version of troff. Whether or not AT&T's software licensing department is stagnant, well, that's another question entirely. -Rick -- Rick Richardson | JetRoff "di"-troff to LaserJet Postprocessor| Ask about PC Research,Inc.| Mail: uunet!pcrat!jetroff; For anon uucp do:| FaxiX uunet!pcrat!rick| uucp jetroff!~jetuucp/file_list ~nuucp/. | for UNIX/386 jetroff Wk2200-0300,Sa,Su ACU {2400,PEP} 12013898963 "" \d\r\d ogin: jetuucp
baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur) (10/28/89)
From article <1989Oct27.013038.20902@sq.sq.com>, by lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin): : And neither, of course, is troff: : AT&T may have frozen Documenter's WorkBench, but companies such as Image : Networks, Elan and SoftQuad Inc. are continuing development. : : Probably SoftQuad have made the most visible changes (all of the vendors : retainiong compatibility with older versions as far as I am aware), but : none of the products are in any way static. Just curious, but ... how much do these packages cost? At my company software comes out of a different money pool than computer accounts with FTP access. And, it is harder than h*** to get money for software upgrades. Unless the answer is *free by anonymous FTP or equivalent* I think I will take TeX. -- steve baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM