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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: DSP textbook
Message-ID: <4593@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 03:40:32 GMT
References:  <1989Sep20.195449.3833x@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <7070001@hpnmdla.HP.COM> <459@eedsp.gatech.edu> <668@suntops.Tops.Sun.COM> <3085@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1989Sep24.032613.11841@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
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In article <1989Sep24.032613.11841@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

)I think it's going to come down to a war between TeX and eqn.  Each is more
)common in some environments.  Expressive power is similar; the eqn version
)of the above is (assuming I've read the TeX correctly):

I think it's going to take a little closer look at "some environments."

I think it's probably far and away easier to find TeX to run on non-unix
machines, including PC, Mac, Amiga, ST, and so on.  Also, I'd expect
it to be available on most unix machines which:
    1) are associated with technical departments
    2) hooked up to a laser printer or equiv.

I suggest we determine which is more common in the *subscribers* 
environments, and that this means more than whether there are backslashes
in there.

I expect that people might frequently print the equations out, esp.
from the more useful postings.

	jimm

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