On Jan 11, 2008 1:29 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 12:26 PM, Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote: > > > > > Less and less people care about TeX, in fact, but it takes time. > > > > Knuth's 70th birthday has prompted many maths/CS bloggers to write > > about him and TeX, and it's striking how many of them say (roughly) > > "TeX is *horrible*, but nothing else is remotely good enough". > > > > Unfortunately people often assume that TeXmacs is just another front > > end to TeX (see eg. my attempt to correct this confusion at > > <URL:http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=303#comment-16572>). > > > > Also see: > > http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=212#comment-10474
And see point #1 here (provides evidence of peer pressure): http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 Amir > > Even after correcting any confusion on the matter, they would still > not be interested. Besides the style file problem, I think it's a > combination of peer pressure, respect for Knuth, and doubts that the > algorithms used in TeXmacs are just as good as the ones written by a > Turing award winner. > > Amir > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeremy Henty > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
