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> JS> From a different perspective, why use TeX at all, if it isn't necesary?
> Good question. TeX is a hateful destination for computer generated code.
destination" anymore than Postscript is a hateful destination. TeX
does what it is supposed to do -- describe typesetting layouts in a
reasonably high-level way -- and it does it well.
It's useless for maintaining documents: this I'll agree with. But I
don't see this as a problem. You maintain your documents in SGML &
convert them into TeX for portable transmission of your typesetting
and layout. PostScript is the final "page layout" stage.
Hell, before TeX the standard was troff. Do you want those hell-ish
days back?! <shudders at the thought>
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