[OS X TeX] TeX and the wild wild world out there

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

On 30 Nov 2006, at 12:12, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>
>> Recently, I rescued a lot of books published in the second half of  
>> the 80's by the publishing house I work at. They were in 5.25"  
>> floppies, all in TeX (not LaTeX, though).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Can anyone say the same of 20 years old Word documents? Or of a  
>> real typesetting application, like Quark?
>
> Best argument so far. But still, we're preaching to the choir...
>

If we read a 1985 Word document with the 1985 Word program the output  
would be like in 1985...
The problem is that nobody has still his Word 1985 copy (if ever it  
had one).
(Just to play devil's advocacy).

mg

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