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Subject: Re:  One man's experience with TeX vs troff: timings
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Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 23:12:19 EDT
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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?