Armin K. wrote:
On 23.07.2015 18:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
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.
Wait, so you're saying LaTeX can't do what you described
above? Perfect alignment, table of contents/tables/figures?
IIRC, I wanted to create a table that started on one page and continued
to the next. I couldn't figure out how to do that with LaTeX, but it
was not that hard in plain TeX. The details are not really available
now. That was in 1991. LaTeX has probably changed since then. I
haven't looked at it since.
-- Bruce
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