On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 17:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
Many thanks to all who replied! Even the OT comments
interested me. (I have a BA in pure math.) By way of comparison, my
dissertation (1970) was typed on an electric typewriter, and cut &
pasted with scissors and rubber cement; I never touched a computer
till the early Eighties.
My PhD thesis (1978) was written on a PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition Unix,
using "em", formatted in Nroff and printed on a Diablo :-) Luckily for
me, there were no formulae in it.
For the record, I never called texlive a word-processor;
what
I did say was that it contained one. (That much was obvious just
from skimming the list of routines that got updated by dnf.)
At the risk of being pedantic, it doesn't contain a word processor. It
contains a document typesetting system. It has no user interface other
than your favourite text editor (although various GUI-like things have
been developed around it for those interested). Anyway, enough about
that.
poc