On Thu, 10 Jun 1993 18:49:12 GMT, amillar@netcom.com (Alan Millar) said:

  AM> The technical writers I support want to spend their time writing, 
  AM> not programming macros.  Programmers who write computer
  AM> documentation love systems like TeX.  That minor (by total number
  AM> of people in the world ) class of writers can hardly be called the 
  AM> only professional writers in existence.  Authors of art text books 

On the contrary, people on my work who work with WP are fiddling all
the time with margins and headers and tables etc. With TeX you don't
care while typing, you have a preformatted style which you're not
supposed to change, even when your personal taste is a bit different.
This way all documents that are produced have the same look, which is
much better in a professional environment (I have to write quite some
technical documentation, and we use LaTeX a lot because of these
reasons).

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>I don't use oleo, but I have looked at gnuplot, and I have no idea
>where you have it from, that gnuplot "doesn't make it". It's used by
>scientists all over.

  AM> And you think that scientists are the only people in the
  AM> world who need good, cheap software, too?

No, me too. I use gnuplot to evaluate test data. In combination with
fudgit its almost as good as PV-Wave (>$30K) in 97% of cases (where
you don't need the most exotic ways of display). Then for the
exceptions where some very special things are needed we have 1 PV-Wave
license.
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