[pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?

[Robin Fairbairns]

john culleton wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 02:10 pm, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > How can you say that LaTeX is "increasingly fragile"?
> > I find it astonishingly solid and completely reliable.
> > teTeX is just about the most reliable program I know.
>
> teTeX and LaTeX are not coextensive terms. 

indeed; quite right.

> Ahem. I think plain TeX, TeXsis, pdftex and Context also do excellent math. 
> And there are other math tools outside of the world of TeX, not as good as, 
> but passable. I edited the LaTeX parts of an academic journal where 60%
> of the articles were done in MSWord in final form. 

plain tex, texsis and context are macro packages of widely varying sizes.

pdftex is a major extension to tex-the-program, which can run any of
the macro packages.

let him who is without fault ...

;-)

robin