Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?
To: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 14:14:36 EST
From: Angelo Ferrigno <aferrign AT iisst3 DOT italy DOT NCR DOT COM>
Cc: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Stephen Turnbull wrote:
>     Seriously, everybody *does* have TeX, at least in the Unix world.

Stephen, unfortunately that's not true. When I speak about Tex tp my colleagues
they think (and answer thereof) that TeX is either a word pertaining to some
obscure vulgar jargon or that its use should be declared unlawfull
now that we hawe WYSIWYG (that is, the possibility not to think about what
you are doing). Even people in the Un*x support group.

This is not to speak against TeX: I *love* TeX, and I switched fully from a
renowned 'desktop publishing' package to it some time ago. This is just a
crude description of the current situation.

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