<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Dear TeX Group,</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Do you know of any community or 4-year colleges which explicitly offer</div><div aria-label="Compose body">a credit-course in TeX typesetting or any of its numerous variants (LaTeX, etc),</div><div aria-label="Compose body">specifically in the New Jersey / Philadelphia area?</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I have never learned TeX, in spite of trying at least 20 times since 1990.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">For all my published math papers (about 7 of them in 3 different peer-reviewed journals)</div><div aria-label="Compose body">I've used MS Word & Design Science's Mathtype, and exported to a PDF.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">My math & physics friends also have never learned TeX. I cannot speak for them whether</div><div aria-label="Compose body">they have tried it or not.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Reason I ask: my math & physics friends & I might need to use TeX </div><div aria-label="Compose body">as part of a National Science Foundation grant I am preparing: not for the application process at all,</div><div aria-label="Compose body">but for archiving our results.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">But, in spite of thousands of online tutorials & YouTube videos,</div><div aria-label="Compose body">we can never organize & memorize the massive number of commands in markup languages</div><div aria-label="Compose body">like TeX. So, in order for us to do it, we would need to take formal college courses in TeX</div><div aria-label="Compose body">and each of us devote several thousand hours learning it.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate"><span class="signature-truncate">John Michael Nahay<br>25 Chestnut Hill Lane<br>Columbus, NJ 08022-1039<br>resolvent@alumni.rutgers.edu<br>Home: 609-298-3650</span></span></span></span><br></span></span></span><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>