> come to think of it, contemporary layout restrictions did rob us of > Fermat's own proof of his theorem. > more seriously, yes, of course you're going to have to select a formatting > system that can > cope with what you need to express. equations are one thing. the things > that never, ever work well > for me in computer-assisted typesetting are drawing, unless they are very > simple or i am very lucky.
For drawing, nothing beats rolling your own PostScript. Which leads me to a complaint about both TeX and troff. Both will happily typeset whole PostScript documents, but extreme trickery is needed to get them to produce fragments which can be inserted into hand rolled diagrams. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
