<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I agree. I often use this list as an argument for my Mac friends who are thinking of getting into LaTeX. The friendliness of this list, and the helpfulness, are far and away above the norm for most computer-y listservs. Telling potential converts that they can almost always get helpful help (there is unhelpful/ungracious help aplenty out there) goes a long way to easing concerns....<div><br></div><div><div>Best,</div><div>-Nathan </div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">----------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Nathan A. Paxton</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ph.D. Candidate</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Dept. of Government, Harvard University</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resident Tutor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Winthrop House, Harvard University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">========================================================</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">If every professor who backed a lunatic politician were to be sacked, half the interesting minds in academia would be lost.</font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">- The Economist, 5 Jan 2002</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">A morning without coffee is like something without something else.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">========================================================</font></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 20 Aug 2009, at 9:14 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Some recent on email lists outside of the BibDesk-TeX on OSX universe serve to remind me how wonderfully pleasant and helpful everyone here is. So, thanks everyone. I wish I knew more and could be of more help.<br><br>Best<br><br>Adam<br><br>------------------<br>Adam M. 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