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Aucbvax.2535 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!Nowicki@PARC-MAXC Wed Aug 5 13:04:14 1981 Re: typesetters for UNIX (query) From: Nowicki at PARC-MAXC If you are doing non-mathematical text such as user manuals, program documentation, etc. The Scribe document compiler is by far the easiest to use and can produce documents in all sorts of styles on all sorts of output devices. The BLISS version marketed by Unilogic (And now DEC!!) runs on Tops-20, Tops-20, Tenex, VAX/Unix, and VMS, but unfortunately not on 11s yet, although there is a subset called "Scribble" marketed by "Mark of the Unicorn" that is written in C and runs on an 8080 under CPM.

For complex math, TEX is an obvious choice (although I'm biased). There are at least half a dozen people working on implementing TEX under Unix, but I haven't heard of any full implementations that work yet.

-- Bill

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