<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 13:18, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_7330054433387236947moz-cite-prefix">George N. White III wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">A large fraction of the TeX community
has already rejected Windows. <br>
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Are you able to support that statement by reference to published
statistics, George ?<br>
Philip Taylor<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><div>Meaningful statistics are hard to get Tex Live (and MacOS) is available in many linux <br></div><div>distros as well as macports, and will be installed thru dependencies on systems <br></div><div>that are not used for authoring documents (e.g., to format documentation when installing</div><div>a package from source). In some cases the user will see a TeX system being installed <br></div><div>without knowing how it is used. As a result, the number of TeX installs in linux systems <br></div><div>is not at all comparable to the numbers of TeX (e.g., MiKTeX + TL) on Windows where most <br></div><div>installs are done by authors.</div><div><br></div>All I can go on is my own anecdotal experience. I'm recently retired from a scientific research</div><div>institute. Although Windows was the "corporate standard", many scientists found ways to <br></div><div>run TeX on MacOS or linux systems due to bad experiences using Windows. An example<br></div><div>is a system that was initially configured with MiKTeX in a way that required admin <br></div><div>privs to install updates or new packages, but there were also problems with scripting <br></div><div>languages (bash, perl, sed, awk) being used to automate some aspect of document creation.<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div>