[OS X TeX] TeX and the wild wild world out there

Paul Vickers eattheword at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 30 08:56:24 CET 2006


On 29 Nov 2006, at 20:42, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Paul Vickers wrote:
>
>> On 29 Nov 2006, at 20:23, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It is certainly in my interest if I write to Cauchy. That Cauchy   
>>> should consider it sine qua non, I deplore.
>>
>>
>> Moi aussi. I wouldn't automatically trash a document that was sent  
>> to  me 'cause it's in Word. How would my dad send me stuff then?  
>> There's  NO WAY he's ever going to learn LaTeX.
>
> Now you are truly off topic! :-)
>
> By the way, it is interesting, at least to me, that, as far as I  
> can tell, mostly mathematicians took part in this discussion.

I'm not a mathematician, never have been. As a non-mathematician, I  
find Word-produced maths much harder to read (and understand). I work  
in the HCI branch of computing.

Paul
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