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Stephenson wrote this about text editors:

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish [1]

I think if you replace "emacs" with "TeX" and "editing software" with "document formatting system", the quote holds just as well.

[1] http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html



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