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- From: robert kelly F <rkelly3@MACH1.WLU.CA>
- Subject: Re: Real and virtual
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- Brian Durell mentions that he uses MS W f W to do class notes. Brian,
- can we assume that your class notes have graphics in them? I do a
- 300 pp. manuscript for students each year (c. 40 pp. of bibliography) all
- done with NB 3.1 and Ibid. in PostScript Palatino. It comes out looking
- very nice--"camera ready" if it were submitted to a publisher. With
- access to a PostScript printer NB can do almost anything one could want,
- except graphics. Now, if we could just get PostScript fonts for Lingua.
-
- By the way, it has occurred to me that the reason that NB is so well-
- suited to academic writing is precisely the reason that upgrades take
- so long and dates given are so unrealistic. NB is designed by academic
- types for academic types. We all suffer (well, maybe not all, but most
- that I know) from academic's perfectionism, that little voice inside
- that says that if we could just consult one more source the article
- would finally be ready to submit. Did all of us turn our dissertations
- in on the original date promised? Do all of us always submit manuscripts
- on the date promised? Do all of us always return student papers on
- exactly the date promised? Probably not, because we hope that with just
- one more something we can finally produce the definitive work. Something
- tells me that the same dynamic is at work at NBI. Perhaps we've become
- like the kid I had in class a couple of years ago whose parents came to
- Canada from Germany and thinks that the problem with Canada is all the
- immigrants the government allows in. Or, as Pogo said, "We have met the
- enemy and he is us."
-