On 11/7/18 9:10 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
Well aware — I started writing in (a much earlier version of) LaTeX in Emacs at
Stanford in the mid-1980s, while Knuth was still actively developing the TeX
code. :-) The usual process back then was .tex → .dvi → .ps via the latex and
dvips binaries. And when PDF came on the scene, before pdflatex there was a
further step of .ps → .pdf via ps2pdf. Ah, memories! :-)
I too remember those long chains.
In the mid-'80s, I was using Vi and troff. I first dealt with LaTex
in the early-'90s, but for the most part I stayed with troff because I
had a very thorough familiarity with it; I have never developed the
comparable fluency in LaTeX. However, WYSIWx editors where available
for LaTeX before one was developed for troff, and many publishers
support LaTeX while few if any support troff.
