PHYS169@canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Aitchison, U of Canty; Physics) (05/31/90)
In article <90148.220707GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET>, GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes: > In article <1990May28.174638.1464@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, > shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) says: >> >>Excuse me, but what's wrong with our friends, troff, eqn and tbl? > It would be much shorter to ask what is right with them. That you could > condense to one word - *NOTHING*. > After using ChiWriter and TeX, nothing is easier than ChiWriter or looks > better than TeX. When the promised ChiWriter -> TeX finally appears, all > your scientific word processing questions will be answered. Does anyone consider Macintosh word-processing packages (other than Mac versions of TeX, etc) suitable for such documents? I get the impression the mathematical formulae are not terribly well taken care of, but included diagrams are much easier than with TeX, T3 (anyone using that??) and ChiWriter or Xact. I'm interested in something where you can see the page *with* the graphics in place in the previewer (including Postscript into TeX doesn't seem to do that well enough). Mark Aitchison.
daffy@physics.monash.edu.au (Davyd Norris) (06/06/90)
In article <7789@canterbury.ac.nz>, PHYS169@canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Aitchison, U of Canty; Physics) writes: > In article <90148.220707GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET>, GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes: >> In article <1990May28.174638.1464@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, >> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) says: [...] > mathematical formulae are not terribly well taken care of, but included > diagrams are much easier than with TeX, T3 (anyone using that??) and ChiWriter ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Contrary to a lot of opinions at Monash, I find T3 to be one of the best packages I have used, and would recommend it to anyone. The big catch with T3 is that it is completely indecipherable if you don't sit down and do the tutes first. I used said editor to produce my honours report and will use it to write up my thesis. I also used it to write many job applications, which were printed on a very humble printer, and got lots of positive feedback from potential employers who looked at my resume. Daffy. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Davyd Norris : "Strange people physicists... In my opinion Physics Dept. : those that aren't already dead are in some Monash University, : way very, very sick." - Douglas Adams, Vic, Australia. : "The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------