djbailey@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com (05/03/91)
In article <1991May2.155243.577@cbnewsk.att.com>, ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes: > 98% of what I want a word processor to do, something like Word or FullWrite > will do with 10% of the time, effort, and pain of doing it with troff. Yes! Time and effort are the key advantage. In my inexpert opinion, if you want your documents to look really, really nice, use some form of TeX and an output device that does 1200 dots per inch or better. You can get TeX implementations on both Unix and Macs. TeX was designed to handle weird mathematics. The Mac advantage is in optimizing your time. I recently showed some Full Impact charts to a friend who really likes PCs. I was quietly amazed at what he said he would need to do to make similar charts. I like the idea of a one on one contest. Perhaps a third party could select a suitable test case, such as a page from a chemistry book or other tough typesetting, and let you both try to duplicate it. -- Don Bailey