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Subject: [H-GEN] Re: [H-CHAT] LaTeX
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From: Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au>
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Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au> writes:

> My first exposure to TeX was running emTeX on a decidedly wimpy
> machine (MS-DOS 3.2, 8086cpu, 640k RAM, 20 meg disk), circa 1990.

It was at least 13 years old at the time, yes.

> I still use LaTeX for all my letters and faxes.  I can have a typeset
> letter or fax out the printer (or faxmodem) in 30 seconds from a
> standing start.

Now this interests me.  I can whip out something damn quick, too, but
I'm looking for some nice templates---I'm assuming you use either a
`fill in the blanks' file which you copy, or have some neato macros;
would you care to share either of them?

> I now use HTML with CSS for most (but not all) of my technical
> reports.  CSS is, come to think of it, is LaTeX re-invented, badly,
> and 10 years too late.

Very badly.  I wonder (for the thousandth time, I'm sure) if I
shouldn't just learn DocBook and be done with it.

jason, moving this back to -general
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