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- From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future? [really: TeX flames]
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:39:34 GMT
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- keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
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- >Hmm, I know a *LOT* of secretaries. Not one of which has ever even
- >*THOUGHT* of doing any mathmatics typesetting.
-
- That's a silly argument - like working for a car company and saying
- "I know a lot of engineers, and they all design cars. Therefore,
- engineers don't design computers, they design cars."
-
- Of course there are secretaries out there who typeset mathematics -
- they just happen to work for people who write papers or textbooks that
- require mathematics typesetting. You don't think the chairman of the
- math department at your local college types his papers himself, do
- you?
-
- As a data point, someone I know who is a secretary for a professor at
- MIT does do mathematical typesetting, and uses TeX for it. It may be
- complicated, but it's simpler than the alternatives.
-
- Peter Desnoyers
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