texlive

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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