Still loving the TeX family of tools

I was introduced to TeX about 40 years ago and to this day I use many LaTeX2e tools almost daily.

As a writer of many technical reports, I deeply appreciate the automated generation of index, glossary, and references. Also barcodes and mail merge. Also portability!

Una Smith, 2026-07-02 22:49 CEST

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Still loving the TeX family of tools Una Smith, 2026-07-02 22:49 CEST

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