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

[Victor Ivrii]

On 11/30/06, Massimiliano Gubinelli <mgubi at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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).


Even if it was the case one would need to run it on computer and print
it on printer manufactured in approximately the same time; currently
even opening Windows M$W doc with some math in Mac or trying to
reformat A4 as a letter could be problematic.




> (Just to play devil's advocacy).
>
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