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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 07:04, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> Also, I think that TeXmacs more needs publicity than LyX. For instance,
> contrary to LyX, TeXmacs is not yet shipped with any major GNU/Linux
> distribution (except for Debian, soon). I do not understand at all the
> policy of the big commercial distributions like Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, etc.
> I wrote to all of them, proposed them to support the software for them and
> made them aware of the popularity of TeXmacs (for instance, you may take a
> look on freshmeat: TeXmacs is before LyX. Understand me well: I do not want
> to say anything bad about Lyx, which is a very nice program, but I think
> that our ambitions go beyond theirs). In general, they do not even reply
> to email messages! I think that this is crazy: a very busy person like RMS
> (Richard Stallman) replies *immediately*. The big distributions could pay
> people to reply, but they seem not to care at all.

I don't know if already you tried, but may be that by sending the
announcement of a big release to linuxtoday.com or slashdot or
barrapunto drectly directly by you this should be accepted. Many people
know new software through this sites.

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• footnotes in section, Sebastien . deMentendeHorne, 12/18/2001
  • Re: footnotes in section, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/19/2001
    • Re: footnotes in section, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/19/2001
      • TeXmacs has been "frozen" until version 1.0, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/19/2001
        • Re: TeXmacs has been "frozen" until version 1.0, Daniel Duparc, 12/19/2001
          • A new member introduces himself, Álvaro Tejero Cantero, 12/19/2001
            • Re: A new member introduces himself, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/20/2001
              • Re: A new member introduces himself, Diego Restrepo, 12/21/2001
          • Collapsable section headers, Álvaro Tejero Cantero, 12/19/2001
          • Re: TeXmacs has been "frozen" until version 1.0, Daniel Duparc, 12/20/2001
  • <Possible follow-up(s)>
  • RE: footnotes in section, Sebastien . deMentendeHorne, 12/19/2001
    • RE: footnotes in section, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/20/2001

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