From: bkph AT ai DOT mit DOT edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP port of TeX (with instructions for non-DJGPP'ers) (Was Re: Win95 and LaTex ?)
Date: 10 Jul 1997 19:17:11 -0400
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kaz AT vision DOT crest DOT nt DOT com (Kaz Kylheku) writes:

> Why do people do TeX/LaTeX with Windows 95? Or, more precisely, why would a
> TeXpert bother with windows? You are one step away from not needing a GUI at
> all if you can typeset with these tools, so it's not like you need to run
> Word! :)

> Strange.

Not strange at all, since Windows --- like the Mac --- provides
uniform support for scalable fonts, uniform support for `printers',
uniform support for different video boards, and a nice GUI interface.

So you benefit from the work going on to support thousands of other
applications.  You don't need to write a different DVI driver for each
of the 3,500 printers supported by most versions of Windows, or the
similarly large number of video boards.

When it comes to fonts, TrueType and Adobe Type 1 fonts are easy to install,
and you don't need to `cook your own.'  Compare it to installing fonts under
Display PostScript on Sun workstations :-)

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Berthold K.P. Horn		mailto:bkph AT ai DOT mit DOT edu
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