mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (02/05/87)
In article <1244@ucbcad.berkeley.edu>, faustus@ucbcad.berkeley.edu (Wayne A. Christopher) writes: > The one thing I've heard that troff is better than TeX with is tables > -- I've used tbl a lot and it seems to work fine, but others who have > used TeX's table-making facilities complain that they are not very > convenient. Troff is probably worse than TeX for tables. You are comparing troff+tbl to raw TeX, an unfair comparison. There can be and surely are macro packages for TeX which make tables very simple and convenient (I can't name any, I find raw \halign clear and simple to use). What these people are probably complaining about is mostly that TeX's table facilities are *unfamiliar* - are the people used to tbl|troff? I find tbl dreadfully restrictive; I'm used to TeX. Most of this is just a matter of what you're used to. der Mouse USA: {ihnp4,decvax,akgua,utzoo,etc}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse Europe: mcvax!decvax!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse ARPAnet: think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse@harvard.harvard.edu