On Jan 11, 2008 4:37 PM, Karl Winterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my (rather limited, I admit) experience, most math people at my school > (Berkeley) use LaTeX because one can easily download self-installing > executables for LaTeX. Although Macintoshes tend to enjoy more popularity, > most (at least to my knowledge) students and professors don't seem all that > interested in computers and don't want the trouble of setting up Fink.
Yes, this could be a factor: math people are interested in math, not computers. They don't care about using the best tools -- they just don't want to waste their time installing and learning anything new. Amir > > I've also heard a lot of criticism directed at LaTeX (inconsistent syntax, > unhelpful user manuals, bad interface for composition, etc). > > > > On Jan 11, 2008 11:01 AM, Henri Lesourd < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Amir Michail wrote: > > > > >And see point #1 here (provides evidence of peer pressure): > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, yes, there is peer pressure. > > > > But as I said, it's not a major barrier to adoption > > of TeXmacs, it's a major barrier to adoption *as a > > replacement for LaTeX*. > > > > But TeXmacs is very much used, and a big part > > of its use (more than 50%, I would say) is on > > its own, for the pure sake of writing documents, > > not for generating LaTeX. > > > > > > On the other hand, part of the criticism of > > the guy is understandable, especially : > > > > a. There is no complete emulation of LaTeX > > inside TeXmacs (although nobody really > > has time to implement that : but for > > heavy LaTeX users, it is a problem) ; > > > > b. The TeXmacs markup is not very well > > editable in simple editors like emacs, > > it looks much more like XML. > > > > Although... of course you can export > > your document to LaTeX, work on it > > in emacs, and reimport it later in > > TeXmacs, it works perfectly. But people > > are perhaps not sufficiently informed > > about this ; > > > > c. Remains the non-availability of the LaTeX > > styles problem, but this one will solve > > itself with time, I guess... > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
