On Friday, 28 August 2020 01:30:58 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > I can't really comment on LaTeX, because I've never really used it; from > the small snippets I've seen, I just assume it's TeX with a hell of a lot > of useful macros. I've always just stuck to TeX, with a copy of the > TeXBook handy.
I used LaTeX for a time in the mid-80s. From what I remember, you're right about the macros, but they're a big enough addition to lift the language from assembler to a 'proper' symbolic language - Coral, say, or Fortran. Speaking metaphorically, that is. -- Regards, Peter.
