*> Thus its trait of littering non-text files around> on Unix due to the last line not ending in ASCII LF.*
What do you mean? I've never seen Emacs do this (unless you mean those lockfile symlinks it creates whilst editing a file). *> Emacs wasn't either.* Well, we all know GNU's Not Unix. ;-) As for TeX: my experiences with it have been short-lived and unpleasant. The first was a 10-minute attempt to create a *"Hello, world"* document, but I wound up with a beautifully typeset *"lol, fuck this"* instead. I'm in absolutely no rush to try it ever again. Installing TeX on macOS also requires a 3.9 GB download of the full MacTeX distribution, whereas Groff's source tree doesn't even consume that much space... On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 22:00, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > And can anyone tell me why Donald Knuth did not design TeX this way? > > This has always puzzled me and is the main reason I rarely use it. > > TeX was not developed on Unix. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History > To this day it seems a poor fit. > > Emacs wasn't either. Thus its trait of littering non-text files around > on Unix due to the last line not ending in ASCII LF. > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > >
