[pdftex] PassiveTeX

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I can't imagine to have written my master thesis on extreme-value
> theory in time-series with means of eqn. And if you look at some
> older books of the eighties which are typeset with troff and its
> macro packages then your aesthetical sense is somewhat
> disappointed. I think that's mainly because the distance between
> letters within words is also varying; this kind of stretching to
> fill the lines is very disturbing.

In GNU troff, DVI output of eqn looks very similar to TeX -- James
Clark has adapted a lot of TeX stuff to eqn...


    Werner