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Re: TeX and Scribus

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Martha Adams wrote:
> I certainly think Scribus looks interesting and useful, however, I
> *cannot* agree that the TeX in today's Slackware is "so obsolete as
> to be practically useless."

If you're using TeX & friends just to produce your own documents and
your needs are modest, then you may have a point. If you live in 2016,
however, chances are your documents have requirements (say, Unicode)
that did not exist in 2006 (when the last update to teTeX was made) or
that have vastly improved since then. (I'm not sure if teTeX included
the Libertine/Biolinum fonts, but I have seen more than one bug in them
squashed since I started using them.)

And if you're working with (La)TeX documents created by others, then
teTeX just won't do. Plain old TeX documents might still compile, but
modern LaTeX documents with any complexity beyond the basic stuff most
likely won't.

> I was using TeX daily some 30+ years ago
> and I would expect that if I made a comparison, today's Slackware
> TeX would be like the TeX back then.

Plain TeX, probably, but LaTeX? LaTeX 10 years ago was quite different
from LaTeX 30 years ago. And LaTeX today is different from LaTeX 10
years ago.


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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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TeX and Scribus "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-04-04 08:12 -0700
  Re: TeX and Scribus Martha Adams <mhada@verizon.net> - 2016-04-05 01:42 -0400
    Re: TeX and Scribus Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 07:25 +0000
      Re: TeX and Scribus W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net> - 2016-04-05 14:15 +0000
        Re: TeX and Scribus Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-05 21:13 +0000
          Re: TeX and Scribus W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net> - 2016-04-05 21:20 +0000
        Re: TeX and Scribus JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-06 07:14 +0000
          Re: TeX and Scribus Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-06 18:26 +0000
            Re: TeX and Scribus W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net> - 2016-04-06 20:47 +0000
            Re: TeX and Scribus JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 00:11 +0000
              Re: TeX and Scribus Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-07 05:17 +0000
                Re: TeX and Scribus Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 05:13 +0000
    Re: TeX and Scribus "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2016-04-05 07:00 -0700
    Re: TeX and Scribus Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@deletethis.AcadiaU.ca> - 2016-04-05 21:35 -0300
      Re: TeX and Scribus Martha Adams <mhada@verizon.net> - 2016-04-06 21:17 -0400
        Re: TeX and Scribus JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 04:54 +0000
        Re: TeX and Scribus Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 07:46 +0000
        Re: TeX and Scribus W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse@riseup.net> - 2016-04-07 14:10 +0000

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