Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!billc From: billc@sun.uucp (Bill Courington) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: TeX and scribe timings Message-ID: <1720@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 19:55:36 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.1720 Posted: Tue Oct 2 19:55:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:58:17 EDT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 {} I ran one chapter of a report through both scribe and the LaTeX macros (the conversion was easy, by the way). The demands made of the formatter were pretty much standard stuff: several footnotes, frequent font changes, space for two figures. No index entries. The whole thing, including title page, TofC, LofF amounted to 14 pages formatted. The machine was a sun, the printer an imagen. The following are from the 'time' command. scribe LaTeX user: 75.6 51.0 sys: 15.8 5.6 in: 188 149 out: 46 42 shared: 73+67 40+77