Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: One man's experience with TeX vs troff: timings Message-ID: <1766@uw-beaver> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 23:12:19 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1766 Posted: Sun Sep 23 23:12:19 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 05:25:30 EDT Sender: yenbut@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 13 From: harrison%ucbrenoir@Berkeley (Michael Harrison) It seems tricky to find fair ways to compare TeX and troff. It seems that the source should contain tables and math since that is built in to TeX and that troff should be charged for tbl and eqn. But the inclusion of the printing time seems to complicate the comparison. I would suggest that the fairest comparison would involve using the -t option to troff to just create a file. Lastly, can anyone dream up an input which includes tables and math in a nontrivial way that scribe could do so it could be included into the comparisons?