Armin K. wrote:

There were two reasons I needed it at the time. The first was that
it
was before vim and vi was/is crude by comparison. The second was that
there was a very sophisticated macro for it that I needed to format my
dissertation properly (the format proctors are *very* picky). The table
of contents, list of figures, list of tables, index, margins, etc had to
be *perfect*.

That's where LaTeX wins.

Actually no. LaTeX is limited for what I was doing. There were constructs that I needed and I couldn't figure out how to do them in LaTeX. I used plain TeX instead.

  -- Bruce


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