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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Denis Bitouzé wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">If you explain to students that, in order to use LaTeX (sometimes they
have no sympathy for it at a first glance), they have to resell their
current S-mode Windows computer for an old laptop on which they must
install Linux and learn how to use it, before learning how to use LaTeX,
they will merely laugh at you and will give up...
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Precisely. Is seems to me that this is a problem best addressed at
the highest level; the current president of TuG should write to his
or her counterpart in Microsoft, explain the situation, and ask how
one ore more "official" TeX implementations can be certified to run
within S-mode.<br>
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Philip Taylor</div>
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