eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (01/14/91)
maschler@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (MICHAEL MASCHLER) writes: >In article <1991Jan11.174901.6071@csrd.uiuc.edu>, eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Vi >ctor Eijkhout) writes... >>Douglas.Miller@viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller) writes: >> >>>You should use LaTeX or DOCUMENT, not TeX >> >>Using LaTeX is using TeX. You probably mean 'plain TeX'. >Judging from the many questions I see in comp.text.tex and other places, >of the type "how do you do this and that in Latex?" I would answer -- switch >to plain TeX. The general character of those questions is cosmetic. How do I indent, set margins, whatever. It is very well to use plain TeX if you are good enough a programmer to make your own cross-referencing macros and table of contents, but for the mere mortals who can't do that, LaTeX (and lately Lams-TeX) is the only choice. I would never want to live without that sort of macros anyway. The time of checking references in the text by hand is long past! Maybe Phyzzx and TeXsis are a way out: they are add-on products to plain TeX, and probably have things like table of contents. Victor.