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Moreover, TeX has no serious competition (at least in the niche of typesetting mathematical documents). There are plenty of good text editors and IDEs to go aro

by fdej 10y ago

Moreover, TeX has no serious competition (at least in the niche of typesetting mathematical documents). There are plenty of good text editors and IDEs to go around.

minikites 10y ago
What about groff?
- whyever 10y ago
  How does groff do formulas?
  - ori_b 10y ago
    Using separate programs like eqn. (http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/eqn/eqn2e.ps)
    - apricot 10y ago
      Sorry, but eqn is just not in the same league as LaTeX. It's okay for simple equations, but as can be seen from the document you linked, it produces awful output as soon as the equations become a little bit complex.
      - mcepl 10y ago
        Take a look at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lout/lout-3.40-user.ps.gz http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lout/lout-3.40-use... (page 148 and followings).
mcepl 10y ago
Lout (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout) and troff/groff (https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/). Both do equations quite well, I would even prefer lout (it is a way more comfortable than LaTeX), but the lack of additional packages makes it inferior. Troff is older than TeX (not sure how old is eq package).